Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Codice Laurenziano Acquisti e Doni 153, fol. 232v, 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

Genius's Sermon and Definitive Sentence

Miniature description

Size:

242x77mm

Column miniature

Height: 8 lines

Materials:

Parchment

Green, purple, brown, white, black

Rubric:

Directly above miniature: "Comment Genius preesche a ceux de l'ost"

Frame:

Simple green thick frame

Background:

Solid brown

Placement of miniature:

Directly after Genius mounts the pulpit, but before he gives his definitive sentence

Place of Production of the Miniature:

France

Date of Production of the Miniature:

1300-1350

Similarities to other images from the corpus:

Gestures and Composition:

BWAM, W. 143, fol 128r

BSG, Ms. 1126, fol 140r

BG, FR178, fol. 143v

PML, MS. 324, fol. 129r

BFMUM, H245, fol. 119r

LBL, MS YT21, fol. 127r

PML, MS. 132, fol. 138v

BNF, MS fr. 12595, fol. 140r

Secondary sources:

Peruzzi, Simonetta Mazzoni. 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, p. 184-187.

Detailed description

Allegories:

Genius (Bishop) is on the right.

Six members of the court of the God of Love are on the left.

Clothing:

1.Genius

Green and purple chasuble, clasped at the front with a morse
Decorated mitre

2. Baron #1 (right)

Long purple robe
Green kirtle
Purple hood

3. Lady #2 (left)

Long white robe
Pink kirtle
Coif covering her hair

4. Barons #3-7 (background)

Only their heads are represented.

Gestures:

The barons are all sitting together, looking up at Genius. Baron #1 has his legs crossed. The members of the court seem to be listening attentively to the words of Genius.

Genius is standing in a pulpit. His right hand is holding a scroll, while his left hand is holding a candle and pointing to the scroll. The crozier rests over his shoulder.

Objects:

Genius is standing in a pulpit, which is raised over what appears to be a trefoil lancet window silhouette, probably a reference to a church or cathedral. He is holding a crozier, a candle, and a scroll.

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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