Abstract
This article is an attempt to analyze the Byzantine legacy in the text and miniatures in one of the most important collections of miracles in the 13th century, Les Miracles de Nostre Dame by Gautier de Coinci. It isn’t intended to be in agreement with medieval images, but the ideas that are deduced from his argument are visually interpreted, soon after, in a context highlighting scholastic theories, which systematized the inherited ideology of the Second Council of Nicaea. Thus, in the manuscripts written before 1300, we found the use of various iconographic resources, which aim to express the link between the prototype and its image. Of all the copies, the manuscript kept in Besancon (MS 551) shows more forcefully these changes that occurred throughout the 13th century; its illustrators most likely used double representations and excessive realism, such as the size and the attitudes that appear as an animated object, and become a surrogate of the Virgin herself.
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