Garden of Virtues

[arca_libraria]

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Well found! That's one of the two manuscripts that started this thread, but I hadn't looked at its other images. Here is the Jardin des vertus image:

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So both the "seven rivers with women" and "vice with chain" are part of the same manuscript tradition. The plot thickens...

I must have half-noticed the chain in the Mazarine MS when browsing all the garden imagery (I try to follow links to get a sense of the whole manuscript if it's one I haven't seen before) and then when I noticed the chain in the British Library/Fitz MS manuscript that reminded me of the chain(?) in the VMS I realised I had seen another chain somewhere recently. It's all strangely circular.

I found it again in another MS that has already been mentioned in this thread: BNF MS Fr 938 (f. 120v).