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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, French—France [Browse]
• Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

• Pène du Bois, Henri, 1858-1906 [Browse]
• Roseman, Charles E., Jr. [Browse]
• Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937 [Browse]
• Friedländer, Helmuth N., 1913-2008 [Browse]
• Cleveland Museum of Art [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 150 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• The medieval attribution of this poem to Jean de Meun continued through its three printed editions (1503, 1735, and 1814), until Paulin Paris reattributed authorship to a previously unknown poet named Jean Chapuis, on the basis of a pun revealing the author's name at the end of the poem (verses 1618-1619). See Paulin Paris, “Jean de Meun, traducteur et poète,” in Histoire litteraire de la France (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1881), vol. 28, p. 428; and Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose: Description et classement (Geneva: Slatkine,1974), passim. There was no reference to Princeton Ms. 150 in the census of Le Trésor copies in Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, nor in Silvia Buzzetti Gallarati, “Nota bibliographica sulla tradizione manoscritta del Testament di Jean de Meun,” Revue romane 13, no. 1 (1978), pp. 2-35.
• Script: Bâtarde (or Lettre Bourguignonne).
• Decoration: Two-line champide initials at the begin of stanzas (108 total).

Binding note

France, 19th century. Signed binding by Rémy Petit (“R. PETIT”), a bookbinder active in Paris during the second half of the 19th century. Dark blue morocco, gold-tooled in dentelle pattern; gilt tooling on red doublures; thick parchment endleaves, gilt edges; a green silk ribbon bookmark. Spine title “poesies m.s.”

Contents

1.1r-33v: “ ||Ne sont pas flabes controuuees | De blanche flour ne desglentine | Ains sont visions esprouuees | A nos sains peres demonstrees ...” Explicit: “... ue les coypiaulx et les chappuis | Prendras en gre que jenchappuis | Car ce te plaist que on peult faire. Amen.”

Provenance

Princeton MS. 150 is of unknown early provenance. The New York collector and bibliophile Henri de Pène du Bois (1858-1906) owned the manuscript in 1887. The manuscript was later in the library of Charles E. Roseman, Jr., of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In 1953 his widow donated his collection of medieval manuscripts and paintings to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The museum's library accessioned this manuscript in 1954 and added a library bookplate with donor information and an ownership stamp with the number 31057 on fol. ii verso. The museum later deaccessioned the manuscript, as is attested by a withdrawal stamp across their ownership mark. The present manuscript is not among the medieval manuscripts in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collections, as described by Faye and Bond (1962). The manuscript was later owned by the New York financier and book collector Helmuth N. Friedländer (1913-2008). On 24 November 1993 the Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript at Christie's, London, with the London antiquarian dealer Bernard Quaritch acting as agent.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 412-413.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 150, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Sept articles de la foi

OCLC

1114083314

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