Die rose

Description

Title: Die rose
Creator: Aken, Hein van
Contributor: Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
Published / Created: 14th century
Publication Place: Flanders
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments
Description: In Dutch.
Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
Alternating red and blue paragraph marks and 2-line plain initials, with guide letters. The four verses in the neighbourhood of an initial open with a majuscule heightened with red.
Die Rose is a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments. Both leaves are trimmed, f. 2 severely so at the top, with loss of text. In both leaves the outer margin has been folded (c. 10 mm.) as to form a stub for use as flyleaves in the binding of an unrecorded printed book.
Extent: ff. 2 : ca. 265 x ca. 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Dutch

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Flanders (Belgium) 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Aken, Hein van.
Subject (Topic): Dutch poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Aken, Hein van
Dutch poetry > To 1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Flanders (Belgium) > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Aken, Hein van, Die Rose. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.