Pizan's pool party

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There is indeed a great similarity with the pool illustrations in the VMS. Can anyone here read the corresponding text ? It would be good to know in which context the illustration stands.

A full text edition of "Le Livre du Chemin de long estude" is available You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , but the text to the illustration is hard to filter out. One could count the verses, but that is very tedious.

Edit: In this edition, the text starts at about verse 812 ( page 15 ), ".... Qui se baignoient toutes nues, En la fontaine en verite ....".

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What you will hear me describe:
There I saw nine ladies who had come.
Bathing naked
In the Fountain of Truth
They looked like they had a lot of dignity,
Great prestige and great sense.
I would have liked so much to have learned and discovered
Who they were; moreover I saw
In the air, above the rock,
A great winged horse
Flying around them.
This sight amazed me a lot
And I was even more careful to watch
The places and paths covered with flowers,
More beautiful and the lanes greener than those
Around the fountain.
........