Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Poème sur la Passion
France, Rouen, ca. 1530
MS M.147 fol. 6r

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Jacques le Lieur, as half-figure, wearing hat and coat with large sleeves, possibly his civic garments, extends hands to rings to support text block of 13 lines, whose initial letters when read downward, spell the author’s name IAQVES LE LIEVR, within border, over path in landscape. Trees and foliage forming arch over portrait; miniature within architectural frame.