One of seven designs in Birmingham's collection for Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', six of which were used in the bay window of the Combination Room at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. This image of Phyllis was also used for a colour tile executed by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1864. Manuscript illustration from fol. 0023v Le roman de la rose Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Douce 195 Holding Institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Date Statement: 15th century, end Place of Origin: France Language: French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) Catalogue Description: Catalogue of Western Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries Author: Guillaume de Lorris Jean de Meun Burne-Jones and Morris visited the Bodleian library to look at manuscripts while they were students, so that from an early age they were aware of this script.
Replying to an enquiry from PN, William Waters stated: Hypermnestra in the design and window is always to the left but the convention has arisen to name the figures by putting Phyllis first. That is how the confusion arose.w