Rose site users, we are delighted to announce that we have
added another manuscript to our repository, Bibliothèque municipale de Grenoble
608, aka Grenoble 608. This 16th-century handwritten codex is chock
full of illustrations – 88 pen and ink drawings, with light coloring in places,
adorn the manuscript’s 143 paper folios. These fascinating depictions, which
are somewhat amateurish in their execution, are accompanied by at times
less-than-perfect scribal work. It seems the product of a smaller purse than
some of the illuminated Rose
manuscripts, which makes it perhaps all the more alluring as an object of
study. Was it copied hurriedly for a middle-class, middle-income household? Did
the first owner pen the drawings themselves?
Image: Grenoble 608 ff. 13v-14r (orig. 11v-12r)
We have made some other small updates to our site to respond
to requests and fix bugs in the system: the provenance of the Ferrell
manuscript has now been corrected thanks to feedback from Peter Kidd (you can
view his blog on Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, which includes a post about
the Ferrell Rose here). Some users had noticed
some problems with viewing the transcriptions that are available for some of
the manuscripts – the Javascript problem, which was the culprit, has now been
fixed.
Our project to tweet a modern English version of the Rose continues, you can follow us @RoseDigLib #RoseRom.
