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tir00309000
- Text-inc Id:
- tir00309000
- Bod-inc Id:
- R-136
- Headings:
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Roman de la Rose
Le Roman de la Rose [French].
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.] ‘Le Rommant de la rose'.
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a2r Guillaume de Lorris: Le Roman de la Rose. ‘Cy commance le rommant de la rose | Ou tout lart damours est enclose'; two lines of verse; the first line occurs on its own as prose in several manuscripts; the addition of the second line changes the announcement of the text into verse.
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a2r Guillaume de Lorris: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘[M]aintes gens dient que en songes | Ne sont que fables et mensonges'.
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d6v [Verses anouncing the change of author.] Incipit: ‘Cy endroit trespassa Guillaume | De Lorris et nen fit plus pseaulme'; 6 lines of rhymed rhythmic verse mentioning the two authors.
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d6v Jean de Meun: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘Esespoir las ce ne feray | Ja ne me desespereray'. Le roman de la rose, par Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun dit Clopinel, revu sur plusieurs éditions et sur quelques anciens manuscrits . . . 4 vols (Amsterdam, 1735). With major variants. The work of Guillaume de Lorris was continued by Jean de Meun.
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t6r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Cest la fin du rommant de la rose | Ou tout lart damours est enclose'; 2 lines of verse.
- Imprint:
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[Lyons: Guillaume Le Roy, c.1487]. Folio.
- Collation:
- a–ſ8 t6. Woodcuts and border: see Bourdillon.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ir00309000
GW 11856;
C 5156 = 5157;
Goff R‑309;
Pr 8518;
F. W. Bourdillon, The Early Editions of the Roman de la Rose, Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society, 14 (London, 1906), 39-41, no. C; Sheppard 6575; Manfred von Arnim, Katalog der Bibliothek Otto Schafer Schweinfurt (Stuttgart, 1984), 449.
LCN: 14504332
- Copies:
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R-136(1)
Copy
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) French mottled calf with gold-tooled spine, red-edged leaves, and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 292 × 213 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 284 × 199 mm.
Occasional marginal notes in an early hand and underlining in black ink in the text; bibliographical annotations on the front endleaf in Douce's hand; two manuscript shelfmarks on the verso of the first and third front endleaves: Y.499 and Y.983.
Two- and three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.
Provenance: Sixteenth-century French inscription on a1r: ‘J. Baudrin' (or ‘Vandrin'?).
Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 194.
