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Roman de la Rose

Information About This Item

Creator

Jean de Meun; Guillaume de Lorris

Title

Roman de la Rose

Date

1300 - 1350

Description

Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Script: Gothic
Notes: First letter of each line separated to left, centered on second bounding line
Decorations: 3 miniatures (2 recto, 1 verso): Frag 156r Miniatures of men and women dancing, Frag 156v Miniature of the God of Love, men and women.

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 156

Source

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta156_45

Format

Parchment - 230 x 170 mm - Two columns with 40 visible lines, with bounding lines, horizontal lines extending through both columns, recto and verso ruled separately in ink

Language

French

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

France