Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 005r

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Guillaume de Lorris, wearing cap and long sleeveless coat, sits on chair, with right hand holds pen and rests left hand on ruled open book, mounted on lectern, on draped desk on which is inkpot, two pens, sheet with pseudo-inscriptions and book (both partly visible) and mirror.
To left, canopied bed with draped mattress (partly visible) beside chair.Scene in bedroom with tiled floor and window with open wooden shutters revealing hilly landscape and trees in distance.