Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance
France, Angers, between 1455 and 1460
MS M.705 fol. 1r

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René I of Naples: Scene, Presentation -- René I of Naples, crowned, wearing ermine-trimmed robe, seated on draped bench beneath canopy, with both hands extends book to hands of Archbishop Jean Bernard, wearing cross-surmounted miter and vestments, with cross-staff under left arm. Beside him stands hooded monk (?). Scene in room with tile floor and windows with tracery.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament, with strawberries.