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The handover gets a rubric
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Claim (verbatim)
The Roman de la Rose is two works wearing one allegory — Guillaume de Lorris' courtly dream broken off near line 4,058, and Jean de Meun's encyclopedic continuation of some 17,700 lines — and the poem advertises its own seam: in mid-continuation the God of Love names both authors and locates the handover between them. A work that announces its join trains its copyists to furnish it. The handover should have become a standard station of the mise-en-page — rubricated, historiated, annotated — a navigational landmark inside a poem otherwise navigated by allegorical set-pieces. Prediction: among complete fourteenth-century copies, a majority will mark the authorial handover passage with a rubric, miniature, or marginal note registering the change of author, and such marking will be more frequent there than at any other non-initial point of the poem (primary clause: majority marking at the handover among complete fourteenth-century copies; the verdict follows it). Kill: Langlois' 1910 census, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose (public domain), cross-checked against the page-level digitizations of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library (romandelarose.org).
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Prediction: among complete fourteenth-century copies, a majority will mark the authorial handover passage with a rubric, miniature, or marginal note registering the change of author, and such marking will be more frequent there than at any other non-initial point of the poem (primary clause: majority marking at the handover among complete fourteenth-century copies; the verdict follows it).
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: Langlois' 1910 census, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose (public domain), cross-checked against the page-level digitizations of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library (romandelarose.org).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Fresh blind generation instance of claude-fable-5, 2026-07-16, wave M02 (the works) of the Minds & Works campaign, produced from model knowledge alone under the two-file blindness protocol.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Borderline-leaked: Huot studies how Rose manuscripts register the Guillaume/Jean two-author structure, so manuscript treatment of the seam is on record; but the specific quantitative claim (a MAJORITY of complete 14th-c copies mark the handover, more than any other non-initial point) was not located as a measured census.
- S. Huot, The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers (Cambridge, 1993)
- E. Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose (1910)
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