Bod-Inc: R-136
Roman de la Rose
Le Roman de la Rose [French].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Le Rommant de la rose'.
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.
a2r Guillaume de Lorris: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘[M]aintes gens dient que en songes | Ne sont que fables et mensonges'.
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.
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.
t6r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Cest la fin du rommant de la rose | Ou tout lart damours est enclose'; 2 lines of verse.
Imprint
Imprint: [Lyons: Guillaume Le Roy, c.1487]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–ſ8 t6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts and border: see Bourdillon.
References
ISTC: ir00309000
GW: GW 11856;
Hain: C 5156 = 5157;
Goff: Goff R‑309;
Proctor: Pr 8518;
Others: 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
Copy number: R-136(1)
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.
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