Accession number
PML 553
Creator
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
Published
Paris : [for] Antoine Vérard, [ca. 1505]
Credit line
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.
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.
Description
2 v. in 1 : ill.
Provenance
Ex-libris of Ambroise Firmin-Didot and from the Richard Bennett collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
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Department