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Roman de la Rose.

Accession number
MS M.372
Object title
Roman de la Rose.
Created
France, ca. 1320.
Binding
Brown pigskin, gilt, ca. 1830, by Thouvenin.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
142 leaves (2 columns, 40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance
Owned ca. 1600 by L. Hedelin (signature on first leaf); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in France, ca. 1320.
Texts: Roman de la Rose, begun by Guillaume de Lorris (fols. 1-27) and finished by Jean de Meun (fols. 27v-142).
On the second fly-leaf is a Latin verse of ten lines in a sixteenth century hand dedicated to Peter Erhard by Girolamo Balbi (fl. 1485-1535), a Venetian author who was in Paris in 1485 as a professor at the Sorbonne.
Decoration: 1 large miniature, 12 small miniatures; French Gothic style.
Revised: 2015
Script
textura
Language
Old French
Century
Classification