Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Paris, ca. 1380
MS M.132 fol. 112r

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-- Jean de Meun, tonsured, wearing academic gown, bows, with left hand raised toward group of five tonsured monks, wearing habits. The first monk raises right hand, the second with left hand raised. Scene within gold frame decorated with gold ivy leaves. Marginal extension decorated with ivy leaves. Above miniature in left column, rubric caption of scene, CI APRES DIT L’ACTEUR CO(M)MENT / L’EN DOIT ENTENDRE SAINEME(N)T / SES DIZ EN BONNE ENTENCION / ET FAIT SON EXCUSACION / Q’IL NULZ NE BLASME AUCUNEM(EN)T / FORS CIL QUI COUPABLE SE SENT Below miniature in left column, champide initial O at beginning of text, OR ENTENDEZ LOIAL AMANT / QUE LI DIEU D’AMO(R)S VO(S) AMA(N)T…