Le verger de déduit (Le Roman de la rose, manuscript Egerton 1069)

The narrator arrives at an orchard, which will be the novel's sole locus of action.

"Si vi un vergier grant et lé, Tout clos de haut mur bataillié, Portrait et dehors entaillié A maintes riches escritures. Les ymages et les pointures Du mur volentiers remiré, Si com c'iere, et vous diré De ces ymages la semblance, Si com moi vient à remenbrance." (vv. 130-138.)

The first two vices carved in bas-relief on the walls evoked by the text are Hate and Felonia. Then comes what is represented here on the illumination: from left to right, " Convoitise" (v. 169, a seated woman desiring beyond her curtain), " Avarice " (stirring the gold in her chest, v.195), " Envie " (pointing, v.235) and, on the other side of the door, " Tristesse" (v.291). At the orchard door stands a young girl, Oiseuse (v.524). The narrator eventually enters (v. 631) and, after strolling through the Verger de déduit, arrives at Narcisse's fountain, "Une fontaine souz .i. pin" (v. 1424, we recognize the umbrella pine).