Manuscript 10 (MS10) – Roman De La Rose and Testament by Guillame de La Lorris and Jean de Meun
Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval French poem composed in two parts by Guillame de La Lorris and Jean de Meun. Testament is a poem by Jean de Meun, which contains advice to different classes of the community. The copy of Roman de la Rose contains 34 beautiful miniature drawings in colour, illuminated with gold.
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A folio manuscript from the end of the fourteenth century, on 161 leaves. Each of the 34 drawings are about three inches long by two inches wide. It appears that there were more drawings, which have since been removed. There is a large drawing occupying half of the folio 135a at the beginning of the Testament.
The manuscript is written in French and backed in seventeenth century calf, which is very worn. It has an old rebacking and a brass chain staple.
More information can be found in A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn by Alfred Horwood, published 1869.
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