PLATE XI.
A FEMALE ATTENDANT SERVING WINE TO A GROOM.
This subject is another portion of illumination, partly given in the previous plate, and forms the principal part of the exterior view. A groom is holding the horse of the messenger, who, in the previous plate, delivers the letter, whilst a female attendant is serving him with wine, from a tankard of precisely similar form to those still used in many parts of Belgium. Though, in some respects, rudely drawn, it forms a very characteristic group, and serves to convey an idea of the entire Illumination, which is surrounded by a rich border, the whole, nearly occupying the entire page of a large folio volume; leaving space only for an enriched capital, and four or five lines of the beginning of the chapter.
The Duke of Brittany and his Barons.