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
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
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