2-704-289 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene from the tale of Renaud De Montauban, 15th century, (1849). On the left a messenger brings a letter, and on the right is the Emperor Charlemagne (742-814 AD). Illustration to the 12th-century tale of Renaud De Montauban, the hero of a French chanson de geste (a type of epic poem dealing with heroic deeds) known as "Les Quatre Fils Aymon", (The Four Sons of Aymon). Facsimile of an illuminated manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris. From Volume 2 of "Le Moyen Age Et La Renaissance", (The Middle Ages and the Renaissance), edited by Paul Lacroix, artistic direction by Ferdinand Seré [Paris, 1849]