Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de Tristan
France, probably Bourges, April 15, 1468
MS M.41 fol. 96r

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Legend, Tristan and Isolde: Tournament at Leverzep Castle -- Two confronted groups of knights wearing armor, lances in lowered, astride horses. In foreground two knights, one wearing black armor, the other wearing gold armor, raising swords with right hands, face each other astride leaping caparisoned horses. Scene in landscape with castle in distance.