Membra disiecta. La découverte d’un fragment inconnu du Roman de la Rose dans la Bibliothèque universitaire de Salamanque

Résumé

The aim of this article is to report our recent discovery of a manuscript fragment of the Roman de la Rose, copied in the 14th century and preserved in the front and back covers of a book printed in France in the 16th century, which is now part of the collection of the Biblioteca General Histórica of the University of Salamanca (Spain). These are two sheets of paper, probably separated from an old bifolium, which, once dismembered from the original codex, served as a binding element for the printed book. Our aim, in this first paper, will be to describe the fragmentology methodology that we will follow in the near future for the analysis of the membra disiecta. A palaeographic, codicological and philological study of the fragment will open up the possibility of investigating the possible existence of other scattered fragments of a dismembered codex, which may have survived as part of the binding of other 16th-century books.