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The Hague, KB, 120 D 13

Contents:

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

Place of origin, date:

France; c. 1300-1350

Material:

Vellum, ff. 140, 235x176 (185x135) mm, 40 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt on spine

Decoration:

1 2-column miniature (70 x 130 mm); 9 column miniatures (45/35x65/50 mm); 2 decorated initials (f. 1r)

Provenance:

presented by a Vaultier to a chancelor, probably Pierre Séguier (1588-1672; ownership inscription). Purchased in 1690 by Claudius de Montmignon of Amiens and presented in 1707 by him to abbé Jean-François-Paul de Caumartin (1668-1733). P.-A. Bolongaro-Crevenna; hissale in 1790 at D.J. Changuion & P. den Hengst at Amsterdam (26 Apr.; cat. of 1789, vol. 3, p. 57 no. 4914), 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 theKB

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