Les Epistres sur le Roman de la Rose is written in Bâtarde. This style of script was popular in late medieval France. Unlike previous and more eloquent styles, such as Gothic, Bâtarde is less flamboyant. The letters can also have more curvature and there can be slightly more variations between the letters.
Photocopy from the Bancroft Manuscript
Each parchment leave has twenty-five lines of Bâtarde text. These twenty-five lines are frame-rule in pencil marks. This means that each parchment leave has a framed made by light pencil marks that denote the page’s margins as well as the lines where the text should be written. Throughout the manuscript, the Bâtarde text remains framed within these lines, making Les Epistres sur le Roman de la Rose have clear organization and layout.
