MS. Douce 364
Summary Catalogue no.: 21939
Contents
Language(s): Old French
; , 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
History
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)
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)
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (27 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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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