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Roman de la Rose (MS M.324).

Accession number
MS M.324
Object title
Roman de la Rose (MS M.324).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1350.
Binding
French 15th- or 16th-century dark brown calf over wooden boards; rebacked; edges and corners repaired, lacking 2 clasps; signed T. or I. Payen; both covers blind-tooled to a panel design of vertical stripes surrounded by a broad rectangular frame.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
172 leaves (2 columns, 38-40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 300 x 225 mm
Provenance
Owned ca. 1500 by Françoys Rousseau le jeune (signature on inside front and back covers); Duchemin de Villiers (ca. 1700; signature on inside front and back covers); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Brauer in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1350.
Texts: Roman de la Rose (fol. 1-144), begun by Guillaume de Lorris (fol. 1-29) and finished by Jean de Meun (fol. 29-144); Le testament and le codicille of Jean de Meun (fol. 145-172).
Decoration: 2 half-page and 50 small miniatures; grotesque penwork initials.
Revised: 2015
Language
Old French
Century
Classification