Bibliothèque interuniversitaire section médecine, Université Montpellier, H245, fol. 67v, 1375-1400 | MARGOT

Detailed manuscript information (based on Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la rose. Description et classement, Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1974, p. 134-35):

Parchment, measure: 305x216mm, 157 fols. at two columns 42 lines. Beginning of second folio: Et qui de vous se part et emble. The Roman de la rose is on fols 1r to 131r, followed by the Codicille on fols 131r-v and the Testament on fols 131r-157r.

Scene depicted

The God of Love crowning False Seeming

Miniature description

Size:

305x216mm

Column miniature

Height: Approx. 5 lines

Material and colors:

Parchment

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

Rubric:

Placed above miniature. Two lines that read: “Comment amours recoit faussemblant et le fait roy des ribaus de sa court”

Frame:

Simple gold leaf exterior frame with gold leaf cornerpieces. Interior frame is blue with a white zigzag pattern on both the left and right sides and a white stripe on the top and bottom.

Background:

Background is orange with a red filigree pattern.

Place of production of miniature:

France

Date of production of miniature:

1375-1400

Similarities with other images of the corpus:

The act of crowning is similar to the following manuscripts: BGE, Ms. FR 178, fol. 82r; ÖNB. Codex 2592, fol. 75v.

The positions of the allegories are similar in the following manuscripts: BGE, Ms. FR 178, fol. 82r; ÖNB. Codex 2592, fol. 75v ; BSG. Ms. 1126, fol. 77r.

Secondary Sources:

Langlois, Ernest. Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose. Description et classement. Geneva: Slatkine reprints, 1974, pp. 134-135.

Detailed description

Allegories:

False Seeming is on the right.

God of Love is on the left.

Clothing and other features:

1. God of Love

Dark blue cotehardie with white and red tippets
Light blue-grey capuchon
Light blue chausses
Baldrick with a short-handled white dagger
Black poulaines

2. False Seeming

Black monk’s habit with cowl
White alb
Gold leaf crown being placed upon his head
Tonsured shaved head

Gestures:

False Seeming bows to God of Love, his hands raised in acceptance, while God of Love places a crown on False Seeming's head.

Ex-libris

Fols 1r and repeated on 157r: The signature of P. Florimond dated from 1567.
On the first flyleaf: Ms. de la bibliothèque de Mr. le P. Bouhier .C. 33. MDCCXXI.
At the end, the following lines have been added:
1. Explicit le Romans de la Rose,
  Ou l'Art d'Amours est toute enclose.
  Nature rit, si com moy semble,
  Quant hic et hec joingnent ensemble.