# La Somme le Roy [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Manuscript \(Est. 34\) ## Commentary This French manuscript contains a medieval moral treatise composed by Laurent de Bois, a Dominican monk. The monk compiled the text in 1279 for the French King Philip III \(reigned 12170-1285\), whose father confessor he was. This edifying work enjoyed great popularity and was translated into several languages. The manuscript, written in two columns, is illustrated by seven allegorical-didactic miniatures in rectangular frames, set in the width of either one or two columns of text. The illustrations are not very refined either in its drawing or in its somewhat dull colouring. The miniature on folio 59v shows Hope with the Agnus Dei above, and below Moses, who is separating two disputants, beside Noah's Ark. ## 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]()