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This French manuscript contains a medieval moral treatise composed by Laurent de Bois, a Dominican monk. The monk compiled the text in 1279 for the French King Philip III (reigned 12170-1285), whose father confessor he was. This edifying work enjoyed great popularity and was translated into several languages.
The manuscript, written in two columns, is illustrated by seven allegorical-didactic miniatures in rectangular frames, set in the width of either one or two columns of text. The illustrations are not very refined either in its drawing or in its somewhat dull colouring.
The miniature on folio 97v shows three scenes representing sobriety and gluttony. On the left, a temperate man is giving alms to a leper; on the right, the upper scene shows a rich man at a table cutting bread beside two figures in conversation; in the scene below, sobriety is represented by a woman on a lion holding a bird, with the glutton and a further figure sitting at a table in front of her.
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