Research Catalog

Title

Cest le Romant de la Rose, moralise cler et net / tra[n]slate de rime en prose, par vostre hu[m]ble Molinet.

Author

Molinet, Jean, 1435-1507

Publication

Imprime a Lyon ... : par Maistre Guillaume Balsarin libraire & imprimeur, demoura[n]t en la Rue Merciere pres Sainct Anthoine, lan mil cinq cens & trois [1503]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
• Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.
• Balsarin, Guillaume, active 1487-1525
• Chambolle-Duru (Firm), binder

Description

[4], iiii-cliii leaves : illustrations; 26 cm (fol.)

Uniform Title

Romant de la Rose moralisé

Alternative Title

• Romant de la Rose moralisé
• Romant de la Rose
• Romant de la Rose, moralise
• Romant de la Rose tra[n]slate de ryme en prose

Subjects

• Courtly love > Early works to 1800
• Romances
• Woodcuts > France > 16th century

Genre/Form

• Romances.
• Woodcuts – France – 16th century.

Note

• Prose adaptation in Middle French of Roman de la Rose, a poem in Old French begun by Guillaume de Lorris and finished by Jean de Meun.
• Imprint and edition statement from colophon, where date follows place of publication, with edition statement following publisher's address: Cy finist le Romant de la Rose tra[n]slate de ryme en prose Imprime a Lyon lan mil cinq cens & trois par Maistre Guillaume Balsarin libraire & imprimeur, demoura[n]t en la Rue Merciere pres Sainct Anthoine, autrement corrigie ...
• Signatures: a⁴ b-g⁶ h⁴ i-n⁶ o-z⁴·⁶ &⁴ 2a-2d⁶·⁴ 2e⁶. Leaf a4 blank, omitted in foliation.
• Illustrations: 140 woodcuts, comprising 1 large cut on leaf iiii recto (Bourdillon, page 133) and 139 small cuts (including 72 repeats) in the text, all but 2 copied (by tracing or transfer) from the second Lyons series. See Bourdillon (cited below), pages 84, 138-143.
• Spencer Coll. copy: Typescript table of "Repetitions of cuts" on 3 sheets, laid in.
• Many initials, including grotesque and ornamental initials; large calligraphic L (Claudin, v. 3, page 537) on leaf iiii recto. Balsarin's device (Silvestre, L.C. Marques typographiques, no. 235) on leaf cliii verso, with text "Gloire soit a dieu et prouffit es humains" above.

Indexed In (note)

• Universal short title catalogue
• Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF catalogue général
• Baudrier, H.-L. Bibliographie lyonnaise
• Bourdillon, F.W. Early editions of the Roman de la Rose
• Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.)
• Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York
• Claudin, A. Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle
• Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection
• Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site (Library of Congress copy) and via Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France copy).

Provenance (note)

• The Robert Hoe-Cortlandt Bishop copy, with their leather book labels. See Anderson Auction Company catalog, 1911-1912 (Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York), pt. 2, lot 2097; American Art Association, Anderson Galleries catalog, 1938-1939 (The Cortlandt F. Bishop Library), pt. 2, lot 1367.

Binding (note)

• Crimson levant morocco, gilt, by Chambolle-Duru, 1868 (signed and dated at foot of front doublure), with doublures of dark green levant morocco, gilt in overall pattern; edges gilt over marbled.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1503 (Roman)

LCCN

48041318

OCLC

1002311295

Author

Molinet, Jean, 1435-1507, author.

Title

Cest le Romant de la Rose, moralise cler et net / tra[n]slate de rime en prose, par vostre hu[m]ble Molinet.

Publisher

Imprime a Lyon ... : par Maistre Guillaume Balsarin libraire & imprimeur, demoura[n]t en la Rue Merciere pres Sainct Anthoine, lan mil cinq cens & trois [1503]

Edition

Autrement corrigie & amende quil nestoit par denant, co[m]me il appert clerement en diuers passaiges & chapitres.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy: Preliminary leaf 4 (leaf a4, blank) wanting. A blank leaf from another source has been bound in in its place.

Indexed In:

Universal short title catalogue, 30256 http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/record/30256

Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF catalogue général, FRBNF30557623 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb305576238

Baudrier, H.-L. Bibliographie lyonnaise, v. 12, pages 60-62

Bourdillon, F.W. Early editions of the Roman de la Rose, entry Y, pages 65-66

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 3, column 1176

Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York, pt. 2, lot 2097

Claudin, A. Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle, v. 3, pages 524-525

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, entry 917

Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici, v. 7, page 279, entry 30

Additional Formats

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site (Library of Congress copy) and via Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France copy).

Binding

Crimson levant morocco, gilt, by Chambolle-Duru, 1868 (signed and dated at foot of front doublure), with doublures of dark green levant morocco, gilt in overall pattern; edges gilt over marbled. NN

Provenance

The Robert Hoe-Cortlandt Bishop copy, with their leather book labels. See Anderson Auction Company catalog, 1911-1912 (Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York), pt. 2, lot 2097; American Art Association, Anderson Galleries catalog, 1938-1939 (The Cortlandt F. Bishop Library), pt. 2, lot 1367. NN

Place of Publication

France Lyon.

Added Author

Prose adaptation of: Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.

Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.

Balsarin, Guillaume, active 1487-1525, printer, publisher.

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner.

Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner.

Chambolle-Duru (Firm), binder.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1503 (Roman)