Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Régime du corps
France, perhaps Rouen, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.0165 fol. 33r

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Woman, wearing veil, leans forward in chair, vomiting, her head held by left hand of female servant, wearing headdress (Scene, Obscaena: vomiting). Scene in room with tiled floor and filigree background; all within initial U decorated with pen flourishing. Initial at beginning of Part I, Chapter Fourteen in Aldobrandino da Siena, Régime du Corps.