Bod-Inc: R-137

Roman de la Rose

Le Roman de la Rose [French].

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.] ‘Le rommant de la rose imprime a Paris'.

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.

a2r Guillaume de Lorris: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘Maintes gens dient que en songes | Ne sont que fables et mensonges'.

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.

e2r Jean de Meun: Le Roman de la Rose. Incipit: ‘Desesperer las non feray | Je ne me desespereray'. See R‑136; with variants.

z5v [Explicit.] Incipit: ‘Cest fin du rommant de la rose | Ou lart damours est toute enclose'; 2 lines of verse.

Imprint

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

Collation

Collation: a⁸ b–g⁶ h⁸ i–z⁶.

Illustrations: Woodcuts: see Bourdillon.

References

ISTC: ir00312000

GW: GW 11860 (Anm.);

Hain: C 5158;

Goff: Goff R‑312;

BMC: BMC VIII 162;

Proctor: Pr 8173;

Others: Bourdillon 43 no. F; Macfarlane 124; Sheppard 6408.

LCN: 14504382

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