Size:
330x236mm
Column picture
Height: 11 lines
Materials and colours:
Parchment
Red, blue, brown, green, grey, light blue, gold leaf
Initials:
Top penwork anthropomorphic inhabited Initial “I”
Starting at line 6, left-hand column, pen-flourished initial “Q” appears below the first rubric. Initial is red with black ink detail.
Below miniature, pen-flourished initial “P.” Initial is red and blue with red ink and black ink detail.
Starting line 7, right-hand column, pen-flourished initial “A” (2 lines) appears below the first rubric. Initial is red with black ink detail.
Starting line 20, right-hand column, pen-flourished initial “V” (2 lines) appears below second rubric. Initial is blue with red ink detail.
Starting line 30, right-hand column, pen-flourished initial “Q” (2 lines) appears below third rubric. Initial is red with black ink detail.
Rubric:
First rubric, left-hand column, line 5 reads: "Comme l'amant s'aprocha du Rosier”
Second rubric, left-hand column, lines 16-17 reads: “Comme l'amant embrassa le Rosier / Et eslocha le bouton”
Frame:
Gilded frame
Background:
Naturalistic background depicts the garden where the rose is enclosed. Rudimentary perspective.
Place of production of miniature:
France (?)
Date of production of miniature:
15th century
Similarities with other images of the corpus:
The general composition of the image is similar to BSG, Ms. 1126, fol. 154v.
Secondary Sources:
Langlois, Ernest. Les manuscripts du Roman de la Rose. Description et classement. Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1974, p. 61-64.
