17 more manuscripts available!

• Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal: ms. 6818, ms. 2989, ms. 2872, ms. 5209, ms. 3336, and ms. 6045
  
• BnF: fr. 814, fr. 1568, fr. 798, fr. 1576, fr. 12592, fr. 19153, fr. 12596, fr. 19157, fr. 24390, fr. 19157, fr. 24388, fr. 25523, fr. 25526, fr. 2194, fr. 24392

• More detailed image tagging and more manuscripts tagged
  
• Better handling of paginated manuscripts.
• Improved character name searching
  
• Image tagging display update
• Index terms used in tagging listed in illustration keyword glossary.
  
• Full description of Selden Supra 57 from Tim Stinson
• Background color change in content window.
• All manuscript descriptions now include information about different texts.
  

The Getty has produced a short video on making manuscripts, and they have another on the structure of a medieval manuscript:



Both videos might prove helpful for someone examining the images of manuscripts found on our site.

Site update

• Changed image tagging format to normalize character names and illustration titles. This greatly improved the illustration title and character name tables.
  
• Reworked the data collection table to better utilize space.
  
• Updated to latest gwt and gwt-visualization.
• More image tagging.
• Support for bibliographies in RefWorks XML format. See Douce 195, Douce 332, and Selden Supra 57.
  
• Automatic linking of bibliography references to Google books when available.
  
• Fixed search bug caused by huge query expansions (searching for responsiveness, or Sisyphus in Safari) by limiting expansions.
• Fixed search bug caused by " not being escaped
• The contact email address working again after resolving email relay issue
• Fixed naming of images in endmatter of Hunter 409.

Screencasts

We have put up 3 videos demonstrating how to search manuscript folios, illustrations, and text.

These screencasts were made by our student assistant, Taylor Breslin.

Finding a folio



Finding an illustration or illustration keyword



Finding a line or section of verse

Available editions

Parts of several editions of the poem are freely available in Google books. There is vol. 1 of Méon's 1819 edition; vol. 1 of Michel's 1864 edition; vol. 3 of the edition of Langlois from 1921 as well as his Origines et sources du Roman de la Rose; vol. 3 of Dufresnoy and Damerey's 1799 edition; and vol. 5 of the 1880 edition of Croissandeau. There is also a transcription of Hunter 409 in Max Kaluza's 1891 publication. And finally, Francis William Bourdillon's book on The early editions of the Roman de la Rose is available in full.

Site update

Revisions have been made to the French version of the site, book descriptions and image tagging have now been added, and some minor bugs fixed. Check back for further updates in the near future. 

Usage statistics (through May 2009)

Since the launch of the site on September 2008 through May 2009, the Rose team has noted the following usage statistics:

• 18,557 visits from 123 different countries or territories
• The top five countries represented (in order): United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
• 14,402 absolute unique visitors
• 22% of these visitors have returned to the site
• 423 of these visitors have used the site 9-14 times
• 312 of these visitors have used the site 15-25 times
• 163 of these visitors have used the site 26-50 times
• 93 of these visitors have used the site 51-100 times
• 9 of these visitors have used the site 101-200 times
  
• 945 of these visits lasted between 10-30 minutes
• 346 of these visits lasted over 30 minutes

We have noted that France is now number two in the list of top countries represented. This movement may relate to our efforts to translate the site into French.