Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Literary
France, Paris, ca. 1350
MS M.324 fol. 2r

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1) Roman de la Rose: Hate -- Personification of Hate, name twice inscribed HAINE and HAINNE in rubrics, wearing draped hat, sits on bench, leans her head in profile on her right hand, and raises her left hand toward her breast. Figure against patterned background within frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils, in right column.
In bottom left column, rubric label, HAINE POURTRETE.
Above miniature in right column, rubric label HAINNE POURTRAITE.
Below miniature, initial T decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, TRES OU LE MILIEU UI HAINE / QUI DE COUROUS ET D'ATAINE / ....
2) Roman de la Rose: Villainy -- Personification of Villainy, name inscribed VILONNIE in rubric, wearing veil, pouting, sits in profile on bench decorated with quatrefoil oculus enclosing foliage. With her left hand, she pulls hair of and kicks with her left leg toward breast of Lover kneeling; both grasp gold goblet. Figures against patterned background within frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils, in right column.
Above miniature, rubric label, VILONNIE POURTRAITE.
In left column of fol. 2v, initial A decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, APPELLEE ESTOIT UILONNIE / UNE YMAGE QUI FELON(N)IE / ....