Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Paris, between 1340 and 1350
MS M.48 fol. 76r

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, Forced Abstinence and False Seeming before God of Love -- God of Love (Eros), crowned, winged, stands and gestures toward nun, wearing veiled habit with wimple, representing Personification of Forced Abstinence, with book with two straps in right hand with rosary over arm, with left hand extended to left hand of Dominican friar, representing Personification of False Seeming, tonsured, wearing hooded habit, holding staff with right hand.
Scene against diapered background within pink and blue frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils on two sides.
Above miniature, rubric caption of scene, CI DIT L’AMA(N)T CO(M)ME(N)T ABSTINE(N)CE CO(N)TRAINTE AMENA FAUS SA(M)BLANT PAR LA MAIN DEUANT LE DIEU D’AM(OUR)S.
Below miniature in right column, champide initial Q of Que with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, QUE CE DIST IL AI IE SONGIE /DI FA(US) SAMBLANT P(AR) QUEL (C)O(N)GIE.