YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND
MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 915
Flanders, [between 1350 and 1400]
Aken, Hein van, Die rose.
In Dutch.
ff. 2 : parchment ; ca. 265 x ca. 205 mm.
- Material is open for research.
- 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.
- 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.
- Aken, Hein van, Die Rose. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University.
Subjects:
- Aken, Hein van.
- Dutch poetry -- To 1500.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Flanders (Belgium) -- 14th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Added entry:
- Guillaume, de Lorris, fl. 1230. -- Roman de la rose.