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MS. Douce 195

Summary Catalogue no.: 21769

Contents

Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meung, Le Roman de la Rose
Rubric: Le rommant de la Rose

After the usual ending come, without any break, 24 lines, beginning 'Et lors quant ie fu esueillie.'

Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 158 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 14 × 9.75 in.

Layout

2 cols

Decoration

By Robinet Testard who is documented as having worked for Charles d'Orléans and also worked on the Hours of Charles d'Angoulême (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 1173). Belongs to Kuhn's group VI. Pächt and Alexander i. 787, Pl. LIX

Fine smaller miniatures throughout much of the manuscript, e.g. fols 27v and 148v, with larger miniatures on fols 1r, 86v, 105v, 108r, 111v and 152v

Borders

Initials

Binding

Maroon leather with gold ornament, doublé (French, 18th century)

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 1r the arms of Orléans and Savoy dimidiating each other per pale. Belonged to Louise of Savoy, 1476–1531. Her son became King Francis I of France

Comte Justin MacCarthy-Reagh, 1744–1811 (Douce Legacy, no. 232a)

George Hibbert, 1757–1837

Bought by Francis Douce at or after the Hibbert sale, March-April 1829 (lot 6947) for £84, the second highest price Douce is recorded as having paid for a manuscript (Douce Legacy, no. 232a) Douce's copy of the Hibbert sale catalogue is marked to show the purchase of MS. Douce 195

Douce referred to this manuscript as 'Fine Ms Roman de la Rose at Hibberts' in the entry for May 1829 in his 'Collecta' (diaries of antiquarian purchases, 1824-1834, MS. Douce e. 68)

Bequeathed by Douce to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 550
Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 32

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09-19: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed catalogues