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Alcuin Blamires and Gail C. Holian, The 'Romance of the Rose' Illuminated: Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 223 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002). xxxviii +137 pp. ISBN 0-86698-265-5. $48.00/L42.00.
The National Library of Wales houses seven manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose, five of which are illuminated. This handsome volume provides detailed descriptions of all seven manuscripts along with colour reproductions of all of the miniatures (forty-nine plates in all). An additional sixteen black-and-white plates of miniatures in...