No two copies of a text in [a] manuscript are ever identical so each new find adds another piece to a jigsaw, which helps us understand how these texts were read and re-interpreted in the Middle Ages.

Marianne Ailes

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The Roman de la Rose was at the center of a late medieval row between intellectuals about thestatus of women, so we have the possibility that these specific pages were taken out of their original bindings and recycled by someone who was offended by these scenes.

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