Harvard University, MS Fr 39
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS11209
- Shelfmark:
- MS Fr 39
- Title:
- Le roman de la rose
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230
- Date:
- ca. 1350
- Language:
- fre
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 152 leaves, bound : vellum : 24 cm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Ménars, Jean Jacques Charron, marquis de, 1643-1718
Medlicott, William Gibbons, 1816-1883
Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-1787
Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617
Turner, Dawson W. 1815-1885
- Note:
- Manuscript, in an unidentified hand.
Page dimensions 23 x 16 cm., ruled for 2 columns of 36 lines.
In a gothic bookhand.
Illumination (f. 1) consists of one decorated initial, one small repainted illumination and simple U-bar border; colored initials throughout.
Incipit: Maintes gens quident que en songes / Nait se fables non et mençongnes.
Manuscript observations on front flyleaf by Sir Francis Palgrave, Dec. 1842.
In a brown calf binding with the Soubise armorial emblems on spine.
In a protective tray case, 25.5 cm.
Belonged ca. 1600 to Jacques-Auguste de Thou, according to manuscript note on front flyleaf by Dawson Turner; and ca. 1700 to Jean Jacques Charron, marquis de Ménars. Prince de Rohan-Soubise sale (Paris, 1789, probably no. 4941); sold in 1814 by Nepveu of Paris to Dawson Turner; his sale (London, 6 June 1859, no. 402) to Lilly. Sale by Quaritch, Gen. cat., 1874, no. 139; William G. Medlicott...
Purchased with the Bequest of Mrs. Anna E. P. Sever of Boston, widow of Col. James Warren Sever (class of 1817), 1878. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990092063030203941/catalog
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:25795611
- Holding Institution:
