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MS. Douce 364

Summary Catalogue no.: 21939

Contents

Language(s): Old French

Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meung, Le roman de la rose
Rubric: Le Roman de la Rose
Explicit: Cy fine le rommant de la rose, escript de la main Jehan Lorin

After the main text, a later hand added several stanzas on the love of Christ, to the Virgin, etc.

Incipit: Plus grant plesir ne se pourroyt panser

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 165 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 13.625 × 10.625 in.

Layout

2 cols

Hand(s)

Written by Jean Lorin

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 719, Pl. LV

Fine and good miniatures

Borders

Initials

History

Origin: c. 1460–1470 ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

Douce owned at least five copies of the Roman de la Rose. It is likely that either this manuscript or MS. Douce 332 may be identified with the brief entry for March 1806 by Douce ('Guillemeau hist. de la rose... Dulau') in his 'Collecta' (diaries of antiquarian purchases, 1824-1834, MS. Douce e. 68)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) and the Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 606
Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 63

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (27 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09-21: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed sources

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