Accession number
MS M.48
Object title
Roman de la Rose.
Created
Paris, France, between 1340 and 1350.
Binding
Full orange levant morocco, inlaid in green, red, and black mosaic to an Italian design, with red levant doublures semis, with fleur-de-lis in gold, elaborate gilt gauffered edges by Lortic of Paris (19th century) in red morocco box case with 2 clasps.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1904.
Description
180 leaves (2 columns, 36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 274 x 195 mm
Provenance
Owned ca. 1600 by Thomassin (name at bottom of folio 180); Monmerqué sale (Paris, 1851, no. 2804); A. Firmin-Didot sale (Paris, 1878, no. 33) to A. Fontaine (catalogue 1879, no. 513); Eugène Paillet Collection; Bull. Morgand 20 (1887), no. 12199; before 1888: collection of George Beach De Forest, New York; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with remainder of De Forest collection in 1904; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Paris, France, between 1340 and 1350; fol. 49, 106-113 (with spaces for illustrations), 130-137 and the codicile, fol. 179v-180, are written in a 15th century hand.
Texts: Roman de la Rose, begun by Guillaume de Lorris (fols. 1-149) and finished by Jean de Meun (fols. 150-179v). Codicile by Jean de Meun (fols. 179v-180).
Decoration: 2 half-page miniatures and 31 small miniatures.
Revised: 2015
Texts: Roman de la Rose, begun by Guillaume de Lorris (fols. 1-149) and finished by Jean de Meun (fols. 150-179v). Codicile by Jean de Meun (fols. 179v-180).
Decoration: 2 half-page miniatures and 31 small miniatures.
Revised: 2015
Script
textura
Language
Middle French
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