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:"The first illustration of a heart outside the anatomical literature occurred as late as the 13th century, in a French manuscript, written by an unknown poet and entitled Roman de la poire (Romance of the pear). This story takes its title from a scene in which the damsel offers a pear, analogous to Eve's apple, to her sweetheart. In the tale, the suitor's gaze is represented as an actual character called Douz Regart (Sweet Looks). In a miniature, within the calligraphic curve of a golden capital S, he is pictured kneeling before a lady and offering her the lover's heart. The shape of this heart resembles the form of a pine cone–a shape that accords with descriptions of the heart in anatomical literature since Galen and Avicenna."
:"The first illustration of a heart outside the anatomical literature occurred as late as the 13th century, in a French manuscript, written by an unknown poet and entitled Roman de la poire (Romance of the pear). This story takes its title from a scene in which the damsel offers a pear, analogous to Eve's apple, to her sweetheart. In the tale, the suitor's gaze is represented as an actual character called Douz Regart (Sweet Looks). In a miniature, within the calligraphic curve of a golden capital S, he is pictured kneeling before a lady and offering her the lover's heart. The shape of this heart resembles the form of a pine cone–a shape that accords with descriptions of the heart in anatomical literature since Galen and Avicenna."
Vinken cites the source of the image as "FR, MS. 2086, plate 12. National Library, Paris, France".
Vinken cites the source of the image as "FR, MS. 2086, plate 12. National Library, Paris, France".
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The online source also claims that the image shows ''La Dame livre son cœur au poète'', while it is clearly "the poet" who is offering his heart to "the lady", but according to the better-informed account by Vinken, the depicted lover is not actually "the poet" but himself an allegory of the lover's "sweet gaze" (''douz regart'').
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