Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, FR178, fol. 70v, 1353 | MARGOT

Detailed manuscript information (based on Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la rose. Description et classement, Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1974, p. 195):

Parchment. 290x213, 190 fols, two columns at 39 lines, written in Paris in 1353. Beginning of the second folio: Lors pris l'aguille a enfiler. It contains the Roman de la rose fols 1-160v and the Testament on fols 161r-190v.

Scene depicted

Jealous husband beats his wife.

Miniature description

Size:

Column picture.

Height: 10 lines

Material and colors:

Parchment

Red, blue, gray, pink, white, black, gold leaf

Rubric:

Placed above miniature. Reads: “Co[m]ment le jalous bat sa fame”

Frame:

Gilded outer border with red inner border with white wavy details on the right and left, and white spiral details on the top and bottom. There is a secondary inner frame consisting of three bars: blue, white and red in irregular pattern. Gold leaf filling between outer and inner frame.

Background:

Diaper pattern background. Square grid with alternating gold, blue and red squares with fine white detail that creates a secondary diagonal grid.

Place of production of miniature:

Paris, France

Date of production of miniature:

1353

Detailed description

Allegories:

Wife on the left

Jealous husband on the right

Clothing:

1. Wife:

Pink gown

2. Jealous husband

Blue courtepy
Black girdle
Red chaperon
Red hose
Black pouleines

Gestures:

Husband's right hand is raised over his head ready to strike his wife. His left hand is grasping her hair. His wife is crouched on the ground; her arms and hands are outstretched as though she is trying to flee.

Ex-libris

Beneath the last explicit, some lines in a more modern hand have been erased.
Puis que de vous et A.S.A. qui Fortune a.
The Bibliothèque de Genève received this manuscript in 1742 from Am. Lullin who had bought it from the heirs of A. Petau.