In the lower margins of the first ten folios of the Douce 360 manuscript [Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 360], there is an unusual series of eleven drawings that illustrate several episodes from the story of the “Judgment of Renart” (Branch Ia of the Roman de Renart). These marginal drawings were added much later, perhaps between one hundred and two hundred years after the manuscript was written. The sixteen miniatures made in 1339 at the opening of certain branches are in color; the eleven marginal drawings present on the first ten folios are in brown ink and brown wash; some are a little faded and a little blurred. They are in a simple, even childish style. - [Author]

Language: French