| Location: | Genève |
| Library / Collection: | Bibliothèque de Genève |
| Shelfmark: | Ms. fr. 178 |
| Manuscript title: | Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose. Jean de Meun, Le Testament |
| Caption: | Parchment · I-II + 191 ff. · 29 x 21 cm · Paris · 1353 |
| Language: | French |
| Manuscript summary: | The Roman de la Rose is a poetic work of approximately 22,000 octosyllabic verses. The first part of this allegorial romance (over 4,000 verses) was written by Guillaume de Lorris in about 1230 and completed by Jean de Meun some forty years later. Although the work was originally conceived as a courtly tale, the second part gives itself over to a wide variety of excesses and expressly criticizes the mythos of the rose according to Guillaume de Lorris. The Testament is a poem consisting of 544 four-line alexandrine monorhyme stanzas expounding the spiritual development of Jean de Meun. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-bge-fr0178 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0178 |
| How to quote: | Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 178: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose. Jean de Meun, Le Testament (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0178) |
| Online since: | 06/22/2010 |
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