University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 906

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1713

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 906

Title:

Roman de la Rose.

Author:

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230

Guillaume de Lorris WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[after 1474]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French

Old French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 342 leaves : paper ; 302 x 210 (192 x 90) mm bound to 310 x 216 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Note:

Verses 64-73 pasted on f. [ii] recto in contemporary hand; some marginalia trimmed and lost.
Origin: Written in France after 1474, based on primary watermark.
Title from flyleaf, in a later hand.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 342; 1-18¹⁶ 19¹⁸ 20-22¹⁶; [ii], 1-317, 319-340, [i]; misnumbered at 318, no loss of text. Foliation and line numbering in a later hand. Signatures at bottom right; catchwords at bottom center, often cropped.
Layout: Written in 31-37 long lines; text block boundaries ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive, with the first words or first line at the beginning of sections in bâtarde script; f. 306-322v (a single gathering) in a second hand.
Decoration: Many 2- and 3-line initials in red; capital at beginning of each line stroked with yellow; rubrication in red, often with cropped notes for rubrication or illustration barely visible at edge of page; spaces for illumination, approximately 9 lines in height, are frequent at the beginning of the manuscript but disappear in the second half (after f. 171v).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked; wormholes in boards, leather, and text near spine.
Watermark: Gatherings 1-19, Briquet 1799 (1474); gatherings 20-22 include Briquet 1548 (1463), 1701 (1454), and 1546 (1457).
Sold by Librairie J. Thiebaud, 1950.
Sold in the Ashburnham collection at auction at Sotheby's, 10 June 1901, lot 607.
Signatures: Marcel (inside upper cover); Delaplanches (f. 1r).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

romances (medieval narratives)

To 1500

French poetry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935591523503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3cn6z413/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania