This series was taken from Masterpieces of Illumination: The World's Most Beautiful Illuminated Manuscripts from 400 to 1600, TASCHEN © 2001

page 355: King René's Book of Love, circa 1460.
Origin: France

A book created for King René of France, the stories collected related to themes of chicarly and romance common to the time. Excessive in decoration, the typography is lost in the field of flowers detailed below the elaborate illustration.