Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Paris, between 1340 and 1350
MS M.48 fol. 68v

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, Jealous Husband beating Wife -- Husband raises club in right hand and with left hand seizes hair of wife raising hands and falling backward on her right arm.
Scene against diapered background within pink and blue frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils on three sides.
Above miniature in left column, rubric caption of scene, CO(M)MENT LI IALOUS BAT SA FE(M)ME.
At beginning of right column, rubric speech, AMIS P(AR)LE.
Below rubric in right column, champide initial L of Lors decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, LORS LA PRENT ESPOIR DE VENUE / CIL QUI DE MAUTALE(N)T TRESSUE.