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• Opera: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. • Author/Scribe/Minaturist: Created or copied in Paris around 1280 by Berthaud d'Achy (who served as scribe and principal painter). • Location: Vatican Apostolic Library, Urb. lat. collection (Urb. lat. 376). • Physical characteristics: The codex comprises 260 pages, enriched with 93 miniatures decorated in gold and 624 colored initials (often finished in gold). • Digitization: It is available online via the Vatican Library's DigitVatLib portal. • Facsimile edition: In 1987 a notable two-volume facsimile edition (text and commentary edited by Eberhard König and Gabriele Bartz) was published by Belser Verlag. • Original manuscript: Urb. lat. 376, a parchment manuscript from the late 13th century (circa 1280) containing the famous French allegorical poem Roman de la Rose (by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun). • Signature / Prefect: It bears the signature of Leonardus E. Boyle O.P. (Leonard Boyle, Dominican friar and historian, who was Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library from 1984 to 1997). • Edition: This is a premium facsimile published by Belser Verlag (Stuttgart/Zurich) in 1987, curated by Eberhard König.

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