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Roman de la Rose : [maunscript]

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ff. 1-135. [Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meun] Roman de la Rose. Incipit: Meintes gens cuident que en songes/ N'ait se flabes non et menchonges. Explicit: A tant fuz jor et je m'esveille. Explicit le romans de la Rose ou l'art d'amors est toute enclose. French. E. Langlois, ed., Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun. Société des anciens textes français, 5 v. (Paris 1914-24); this manuscript in Langlois' group II both for the Guillaume de Lorris section (f. 17vb, three guardians) and for the Jean de Meun continuation (f. 50a, presence of interpolated verses between vv. 8178-8179); see E. Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, description et classement (Lille 1910), this manuscript not included. f. 135v. [Computistic material, fragment]. Incipit: //[Qui v]eut quarante jours conter/ [De Pa]sques si pourra trouver. Explicit: Doit estre fait sans sejour/ De ces ii jours le derrein jour. French. R. J. Dean,"A Fourteenth-Century Manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose and a Fragment of Le Compot: Huntington Manuscript 902," Medium Aevum 12 (1943) 18-24, identifying and printing this text.
Type
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Date
[between 1300 and 1350]
Call number
mssHM 902
Creator
Guillaume (active 1230)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Belonged to William Constable-Maxwell, 10th Lord Herries (1804-76), whose bookplate is on the front pastedown; in 1870 it was seen and noted by J. Stevenson in the 1st Report of the HMC, Appendix, p. 45. Subsequently it belonged to the 11th Lord Herries' daughter, the Duchess of Norfolk, who disposed of a portion of the manuscript collection, ca. 1912 (see De Ricci, "Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta: a survey of manuscript material existing in the British Isles; preliminary biliography," photocopy at Huntington Library from handwritten card index at University of London). Sold by W. H. Robinson, Cat. 12 (Newcastle 1925) n. 813. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in June 1925.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
208 x 283 mm
Associated people
Jean, (approximately 1240-approximately 1305.)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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