Abstract
The Livre juratoire (“oath book”) contains the writing of the customs of Agen, that is to say the city’s urban liberties and franchises which were put in writing at the end of the 13th century. Through the 93 sheets of medieval parchment, one discovers the system of administration of the city, which confirms a balance of power between the count and the twelve consuls in the exercise of political prerogatives. Illuminations in the Livre juratoire occupy a very important place in this manuscript. Of its 57 articles, 51 are illuminated with a historiated initial or a miniature. Each of these images depicts the subject matter developed in the chapter it accompanies, according to the information conveyed by the text. From this point on, it would seem that the image maintains a semiological relationship with the text, which is indispensable to the construction of a general political discourse on consular “good government”.
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