# Roman de la Rose [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Fr. 19153\) ## Commentary Roman de la Rose 15th century Manuscript \(MS Fr. 19153\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris The most extensively illuminated and popular vernacular poem of the period was the Roman de la Rose \(Romance of the Rose\), begun by Guillaume de Lorris \(d. c. 1235\) and finished by Jean de Meung \(c. 1240-c. 1305\). It was by far the most widely read French literary text of the Middle Ages. The present picture shows the miniature on folio 7 in this 15th-century copy of the poem. It shows dancers in a garden accompanied by three wind-players. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/15\_cent/anonymous\_bohemian\_dances.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Anonymous: Bohemian dances</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()