Lady Eloquence

Georges Chastellain, Jean Robertet and Jean de Montferrant, Les douze dames de rhétorique (in French and Latin)

University Library, MS Nn.3.2, f. 27v
Flanders, Bruges, 1467–1468
Vellum, 275 x 203 mm (172 x 114 mm), 58 ff.
(Binski Zutshi 376)

The manuscript contains half-page miniature illustrations of the twelve ladies of rhetoric, including Science, Profundity, Noble Nature, etc. The manuscript was acquired by John Moore (d. 1714), it was presented to the University Library in 1715. The original clasps are enamelled with the arms of the Montferrant family.

Shown here is Lady Eloquence.

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