| Dragon's Bowle for Signe Scriffuerska | based on |
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| The Manesse Codex, 342v |
| Dragon's Bowle for Signe Scriffuerska | based on |
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| The Manesse Codex, 342v |
I should have made the roses bigger. The three bees are a reference to the recipient's device, Gules, three bees Or.
The text is based on the Of the Chief Conditions and Qualityes in a Waytyng Gentylwoman, available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html#chief, part of Sir Thomas Hoby's English translation of the Book of the Courtier, 1561. (This text is not longer available at this URL, but it can also be found here.
© 2009, Sara L. Uckelman, liana@ellipsis.cx.