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Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 07012

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Source
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
Library
Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Shelfmark
  • MSS 07012
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1375?
Language
  • French
Title
  • Roument de la rose ou toute l'art d'amoure est enclosé
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    129 unnumbered leaves : illustrations.
    Note:
    Collation: ii + I⁸, II⁹ (3 is a singleton glued to a stub, 8 a singleton glued to 2), III-XII⁸, XIII⁶, XIV-XVI⁸ + i.
    Text block: 244 x 187 mm.
    With the inscription "Roument de la rose ou toute l'art d'amoure est enclosé" on leaf [1].
    Double columns, ruled in plummet and drypoint.
    Written in brown [?] ink by several hand in regular bâtarde.
    Rubricated captions mark text divisions and speakers; alternating red and blue two-line initials with extensive flourishing.
    Includes some catchwords and signatures, with some pricking visible.
    Text of the poem on leaves [2]-[128].
    The first gathering, with lines 1-953 wanting.
    Miniatures on leaves [16], [18], [55], and [72].
    Two miniatures wanting and replaced by blank pieces of vellum on leaves [92] and [114].
    Misbound in the 16th century, with the proper order of the leaves restored during a 19th-century repair.
    First leaf of original vellum bifolium flyleaves at front and backed (included in foliation) pasted to modern bifolia, with leaves of each forming the pastedowns.
    Sixteenth-century brown calf binding sewn on four raised bands, stamped in blind with fleurs-de-lis within a diagonal grid, enclosed in a rectangular frame with a border of roses, glued to the 19th-century binding on boards. Rebacked spine with gilt lettering.
    With the armorial bookplate of Elie Bochart, conseiller au Parlement de Paris. The shelfmark 687 on leaf 16 recto may be Bochart's.
    One of the most influential vernacular poems written in medieval France.
    The first 4058 lines were written by Guillaume de Lorris about the year 1230; Jean de Meun composed an additional 17,724 lines about 1275.
    Purchase; King Alfred's Notebook; 2017; MS.17.034.
    The manuscript appears in the Druout sale held by Emmanuel de Vregille and Christian Bizoüard of 1994, and was acquired by the owners of the Château de Menneval in Normandy.
    Subject:
    Manuscripts, French
    Manuscripts, French--14th century
    Manuscripts, Medieval
    Manuscripts, Medieval--France
    Courtly love--Poetry
    Romances
Place
  • Preferred form
    • France
    Original form
    • France
    Other form
    • France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
    • France.
    • France (?)
    • Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
    • France ?
    • France -- 16e siècle
    • Frankreich
    • França
    • Francia
    • Frankrijk
    • Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
    • Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
    • France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • França (Abadia de Fleury?)
    • Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
    • Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
    • France (est : Lorraine ?)
    • França (est: Lorena?)
    • Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
    • Eastern France (Lorraine?)
    • Francia (este: Lorena?)
    • Lothringen
    • Lorena
    • Lotharingen
    • Lorraine
    • França (Borgonya?)
    • France (Burgundy?)
    • Francia (Borgoña)
    • France (Bourgogne ?)
    • Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
    • France (Bretagne ?)
    • França (Bretanya?)
    • Frankreich (Bretagne?)
    • France (Brittany?)
    • Francia (Bretaña)
    • Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
    • France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
    • Western France (Brittany?)
    • França (oest: Bretanya?)
    • Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
    • Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
    • Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
    • Bretagne
    • Bretanya
    • Bretaña
    • Brittany
    • Probably the Loire region
    • France: Auxerre or Brittany
    • France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
    • France: Ile-de-France (Sens?)
    • France: Fleury; Reims?
    • France (Southern France?)
    • France: Fleury
    • France: probably Auxerre
    • France: evidently Eastern France
    • Central- or southern France
    • France, Vienne
    • [France]
    • Paris (?)
    • France (Paris?) or Flanders
    • France (3rd part)
    • Strassburg (probably)
    • Paris (?) or Tours (?)
    • France (Normandy?)
    • Rouen (?) or Paris (?)
    • France: Champagne, Burgundy or Centre
    • Lyon or Luxeuil (?)
    • France (Besançon?)
    • France (Paris?)
    • France, Northern (probably)
    • Probably Eastern France
    • St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?)
    • Tours (?)
    • France (possibly near the court)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • [Provence?]
    • France, East (?)
    • France, Northeast?
    • France, Pontigny (or Paris?)
    • France, North?
    • France, Paris?
    • France, Diocese of Limoges?
    • France, Auxerre or area
    • France, Burgundy?
    • France, Brittany or Paris?
    • France, Angers?
    • France, Normandy?
    • France, East?
    • France, Bourges?
    • France, Anjou?
    • France, Northwest?
    • France, Tours?
    • France (probably Paris)
    • France, Europe
    • SW France?
    • FR
    • [FR]
    • Frankreich (Angers?)
    • Frankrijk (?)
    • Gallia
    • Gallia (Frankrijk)
    • Gallia? (Frankrijk?)
    • Frankreich (I.)
    • Frankreich (III.)
    • Frankreich (III)
    • Frankreich (II)
    • Frankreich (I)
    • I./III. Frankreich
    • II. Frankreich
    • Frankreich (Ergänzung)
    • [Frankrijk]
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