The Works of Virgil

A large rectangular miniature, framed by a thick red border with an inner black line and decorative gold patterns, occupies the upper half of the page. The scene depicts a landscape with a central figure, Aeneas, who has reddish hair and is dressed in a reddish tunic and a white cloak. He stands facing right. To his right, several white animals, possibly deer or cattle, are visible in a meadow. The background is a pale sky over a landscape that has suffered heavy abrasion. Below the image, six lines of text are written in Roman Rustic Capitals.

Then he thus addresses the queen and, to the surprise of all, suddenly
says: "I, whom you seek, am here before you,
Trojan Aeneas The legendary hero of the poem, son of Venus and Anchises, who fled the fall of Troy to found the Roman race., snatched from the Libyan Original: "Libycis." Refers to the North African coast where Aeneas's fleet was shipwrecked. waves.
O you who alone have pitied the unspeakable Original: "infandos." This word suggests a grief so profound it defies speech or should not be spoken of. sorrows of Troy,
who receive us—the remnants left by the Greeks Original: "Danaum," a term often used by Virgil to refer to the Greeks., [after being tossed] on land and sea,
exhausted by every peril and now in need of everything."