tir00312000

Text-inc Id:

tir00312000

Bod-inc Id:

R-137

Headings:

Roman de la Rose Le Roman de la Rose [French].

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Le rommant de la rose imprime a Paris'.
2. a2r Guillaume de Lorris: Le Roman de la Rose. ‘Cy est le rommant de la rose | Ou tout lart damours est enclose'; two lines of verse; the first line occcurs on its own as prose in several manuscripts; the addition of the second line changes the announcement of the text into verse.
3. a2r Guillaume de Lorris: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘Maintes gens dient que en songes | Ne sont que fables et mensonges'.
4. e2r [Verses anouncing the change of author.] Incipit: ‘Cy endroit trespassa Guillaume | De Loris et nen fist plus pseaulme'; 6 lines of rhymed rhythmic verse mentioning the two authors, but differing from the text of R‑136.
5. e2r Jean de Meun: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘Desesperer las non feray | Je ne me desespereray'. See R‑136; with variants.
6. z5v [Explicit.] Incipit: ‘Cest fin du rommant de la rose | Ou lart damours est toute enclose'; 2 lines of verse.

Imprint:

Paris: [Le Petit Laurens] for Antoine Vérard or Jean Petit, [c.1497]. Folio.

Collation:

a⁸ b–g⁶ h⁸ i–z⁶. Woodcuts: see Bourdillon.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00312000 GW 11860 (Anm.); C 5158; Goff R‑312; BMC VIII 162; Pr 8173; Bourdillon 43 no. F; Macfarlane 124; Sheppard 6408. LCN: 14504382

Copies:

1. R-137(1) Copy This copy has no device on the title-page. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth century(?) half diced russia over marbled paper boards, with gold-tooled spine and sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 268 × 199 × 21 mm. Size of leaf: 261 × 186 mm. Bibliographical notes in Bourdillon's hand on a paper pasted on the title-page. Manuscript note in an early hand on a1r: ‘In corio viridi'. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 167.