Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1390
MS G.32 fol. 25v

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Miniature in right column:
Roman de la Rose: Scene, Lover begging Danger for Mercy -- Lover kneels with joined hands, outside wicker fence enclosing garden of roses, in which hooded, bearded male Personification of Danger holds club of thorns in right hand and raises left hand indicating roses.
Scene against patterned background within frame decorated with two tendrils of three trefoil leaves.
Miniature at beginning of text, A DANGIER SUY VENUS HONTEUX / DE MA PAIS FAIRE CONUOITEUX / …