Le romant de la rose : codicille [symbol] testament de maistre Jehā de meun / Nouuellement Imprme [sic] a Paris.
Accession number:
PML 553
Published:
Paris : [for] Antoine Vérard, [ca. 1505]
Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill.
Credit:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meung.
BM.C., 34.g.4 (with last 2 words in title "A Meun").
Ed. based on the Paris, Nicolas DuPré, ca. 1498-1505 (Bourdillon, G.) ed. ill. with ...
In title of pt. I, first three lines Xylographic; pt. II the first two lines and ending as in the British Museum copy with "a Meung" instead of the usual "audit Meun" (see Bourdillon p. 30).
In verse.
Pt. I. 150 leaves; pt. II. 42 leaves = 192 leaves; f°. 147-8 (sig. [symbol] 3-4) missing.
Pt. II, f°. g2[superscript]a-g6[superscript]6 Lepytaphe dua roy charles septiesme, the last ten lines contain an acrostic forming the name Simon Grebt.
Undated in Goff. Macfarlane, BMC and Moreau date to 1505.
Binding:
Red morocco.
Provenance:
Ex-libris of Ambroise Firmin-Didot and from the Richard Bennett collection; Pierpont Morgan.
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