Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Paris, between 1340 and 1350
MS M.48 fol. 30v

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Jean de Meun, as scribe, sits on high-backed chair and with both hands raises pen toward open book with pseudo-inscriptions on lectern.
Figure against diapered background decorated with fleur-de-lis within pink frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils on two sides.
Above miniature, rubric, CI CO(M)ME(N)CE LE ROUMA(N)S MAISTRE JEHAN DE MEUN.
Below miniature, champide initial E of Et decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, ET SI L’AI IE P(ER)DUE ESPOIR / A POU QUE IE NE M’E(N) DES(ES)POIR.