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Contents:

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose

Place of origin, date:

France; c. 1350. Added miniature: France; c. 1400-1425

Material:

Vellum, ff. 138, 280x188 (215x135) mm, 40 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century red leather; gilt

Decoration:

penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout
Added: 1 column miniature (46x62 mm)

Provenance:

L.C. de la Baume le Blanc, Duc de la Vallière, his sale at G. de Bure fils aïné at Paris (cat. dec. 1783, pt. I-II, p. 252 no. 2740). P.-A. Bolongaro-Crevenna; his sale in 1790 at D.J. Changuion & P. den Hengst at Amsterdam (26 Apr.; cat. of 1789, vol. 3-II, p. 57 no4915); where bought by Joost Romswinckel (1745-1824) of Leiden; purchased in 1807 as part of the Romswinckel collection by King Louis Napoleon of The Netherlands and placed in the KB

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