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LORRIS, Guillaume de (1200-vers 1240) et MEUNG, Jean de (vers 1240-vers 1305)

Lot 51
19.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 51 | LORRIS, Guillaume de (1200-vers 1240) et MEUNG, Jean de (vers 1240-vers 1305)
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LORRIS, Guillaume de (1200-vers 1240) et MEUNG, Jean de (vers 1240-vers 1305)
Cy est le Rommant de la Roze. Ou tout lart damour est enclose...Paris : Galiot du Pré, [9 juin] 1531.

Édition richement illustrée du Roman de la Rose, partagée entre les libraires parisiens Galiot du Pré et Jean Petit.

Exemplaire portant un ex-dono à la Marquise de Sévigné.

L’exemplaire a fait partie des collections de deux figures liées à Port-Royal. Il est d’abord entre les mains de Claude Lancelot (1616-1695), janséniste et grammairien prolixe, qui prend part à la création des Petites écoles de Port-Royal. Il rédige notamment plusieurs ouvrages pédagogiques pour l’apprentissage du latin et du grec. Contraint, dans la décennie 1660, de quitter Port-Royal à la suite des persécutions, il se retire dans plusieurs abbayes successives, dont Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé, en Bretagne. Peut-être est-ce à cette occasion qu’il offre son exemplaire, d’après l’ex-dono manuscrit sur le titre, à la Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), que l’on sait, en outre, lectrice attentive de Pascal. L’exemplaire rejoint ensuite les rayonnages de la bibliothèque du “chevalier [Jacques-Christophe] de Sévigné” (1644-1700), filleul de la marquise.
USTC : 37983. Tchemerzine IV, p. 230 “cette édition [est] assez semblable à celle de 1526” ; Bechtel, G-381 ; Bourdillon, R, pp. 60-62 : “besides the large cut over the prologue, there are 59 small woodcuts in the text, 31 different cuts, being the same series as was designed for the preceding [1529, 1530 n.s.] octavo edition” ; Dictionnaire de Port-Royal, pp. 582-587 et 927-929.

In-folio (287 x 201 mm). Titre imprimé en rouge et noir, orné d’un encadrement gravé sur bois, devise de l’imprimeur au dernier feuillet, grand bois en préambule au feuillet A2r, 59 bois dans le texte (dont 31 répétés), lettrines.
Reliure postérieure : en maroquin brun, dans un angle du plat supérieur monogramme couronné (double E ?), dos à nerfs, double filet doré sur les coupes, gardes de papier marbré, tranches dorées (quelques mouillures marginales, premier et dernier feuillet légèrement brunis, quelques frottements à la reliure).
Provenance : Claude Lancelot (1616-1695), qui offrit l’exemplaire à -- Madame de Sévigné (1616-1696 ; ex-dono sur le titre “C. Lancelot dono Marquionis de Servigny”) -- Jacques-Christophe de Sévigné (1644-1700 ; sur le feuillet B1 R. ex-libris manuscrit: “Le Chr de Sevigne”).

A richly illustrated Parisian edition of the Roman de la Rose.
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Books, Books and manuscripts
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