SUPPLEMENT

TO THE GLOSSARY

OF THE ROMANCE

OF THE ROSE,

CONTAINING NOTES

Critical, Historical & Grammatical.

A Dissertation on the Authors of this

Romance.

The Roman de la Rose is a famous 13th-century French allegorical poem begun by Guillaume de Lorris and completed by Jean de Meun.

The Analysis of this Poem. A Discourse on

the utility of Glossaries.

The Variant readings restored from a Manuscript belonging to Mr.

the President BOUHIER of Savigny.

Jean Bouhier (1673–1746) was a prominent French jurist, scholar, and bibliophile from Dijon who served as the President of the Parlement of Burgundy.

And a Table of the Authors cited in this

Work.

Many words shall be reborn which now have fallen; and those shall fall which are now held in honor. original: "Multa renaſcentur, quæ jam cecidere : cadentque , Quæ nunc ſunt in honore vocabula."

Q. Horace, on the Art of Poetry, book [I].

A typographic ornament consisting of a central floral or shell-like motif flanked by symmetrical scrolls and leaf patterns.

AT DIJON,

At J. SIROT, Printer-Bookseller,

Saint Stephen's Square.

1737.

With the Approval & Privilege of the King.

A "Privilege" was a royal license granting an author or publisher the exclusive right to print a work for a specific period, protecting it from piracy.