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Royal 14 E III f. 89 Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere
Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere
Description: Miniature of Arthur and Guinevere seated at a banquet table surrounded by vassals, with Lancelot kneeling before them, requesting permission to leave the court; miniature of Lancelot arriving at a nunnery, where he is disarmed, with rebec players, jousting, grotesques, a man shooting an arrow at a butterfly, hanging heraldic devices, and other scenes in the margins, at the beginning of the Quest for the Holy Grail. 
Origin: France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai?) 


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