Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Codice Laurenziano Acquisti e Doni 153, fol. 150v, 1300-1350 | MARGOT

Detailed manuscript information (based on Simonetta Mazzoni Peruzzi, Il Codice Laurenziano Acquisti e Doni 153 del Roman de la rose, Florence: Casa editrice Le Lettere, 1986 and Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la rose. Description et classement, Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1974, p. 184-187):

Parchment, measure: 242x77mm, 259 folios, one column of 45 lines. The Roman de la rose is fols 3-257. On fols 257v-259r, a text in Latin has been added (see Langlois for full transcription). Beginning of the fourth folio (formerly the second): Lors esteut jovenes gens entendre.

Scene depicted

The Duenna and Fair Welcoming speak with each other in the tower.

Miniature description

Size:

242x77mm

Column miniature

Height: 10 lines

Material and colors:

Parchment

Gold leaf, blue, red, purple, white, brown, black, grey, green

Frame:

Simple linear frame done in black ink with corner pieces.

Background:

Background shows rudimentary perspective, with a blue sky and tower.

Place of production of miniature:

France

Date of production of miniature:

1300-1350

Similarities with other images of the corpus:

The tower also appears in the following manuscripts : PML. Ms.132, fol. 91v; BMC. Ms. 0270, fol. 90v; BNCF. Codice Laurenziano Acquisti e Doni 153, fol. 150v; ÖNB. Codex 2592, fol. 87v; PML. Ms. 132, fol. 95r.

The position of the allegories is similar in the following manuscripts: BSG. Ms. 1126, fol. 90R; BGE. Ms. FR178, fol. 94v; BimUM. Ms. H245, fol. 80r; PML. Ms. 132, fol. 103v.

Other buildings also appear in the following manuscripts: PML. Ms. 132, fol. 95r; PML. Ms. 132, fol. 102v.

Secondary Sources:

Mazzoni Peruzzi, Simonetta. Il Codice Laurenziano Acquisti e Doni 153 del Roman de la rose. Florence: Casa editrice Le Lettere, 1986.

Langlois, Ernest. Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose. Description et classement. Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1974, pp. 184-187.

Detailed description

Allegories:

Fair Welcoming is on the left.

Duenna is on the right.

Clothing and other features:

1. Fair Welcoming

Colourless hair
Brown robe

2. Duenna

Green robe
Pointed brown hood

Architecture:

The figures stand within a tower with two bartizans at either side and enclosed at the front by a wall with crenellations.

Gestures:

The Duenna has her left finger raised in a gesture of speech and her right hand is raised with palm facing upward. Fair Welcoming's right finger is also pointed in a gesture of speech, with the left hand raised, palm facing upward. These gestures indicate that the figures are fully engaged in conversation.

Ex-libris

Fol. 1v: Hanc romanensem de Amore fabulam, a Guillelmo de Lorris, jurisconsulto et poeta, gallicis versibus, anno circiter 1260 exacratam, ex hereditate Jo. de Menabuonis adquisitam, Ferdinandus III, A.A.M.D.E., Laurentianae bibliothecae muneri dedit, die XV sept., a 194, curante Angelo Mario Bandinio.
Fol. 2v: In modern writing Cy est li Rommant de la Rose, ou tout l'art d'amours est enclose. Manuscript.
Fols 257v-259: Text in Latin (see above)
Fol. 259r: Effaced and illegible ex-libris.
Fol. 259v: Two sales from the XVth century have been noted, both by the same hand:
1. Je vous vent le pré qui fueille,
  Si pri a Dieu du ciel, belle, qu'il vueille
  En vostre cuer metre et escrire
  Ce que le mien ne vous osse dire.
2. Je vous vent la pierre de l'ambre,
  Vostre nature, belle, li resemble,
  Qui trait la busche et tire a soy,
  Si faites vous, belle, le cuer de moy.

Other verses or ex-libris follow, but they are scratched and illegible.

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