Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1390
MS G.32 fol. 29r

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Miniature in left column:
1) Roman de la Rose: Scene, Fear trembling before Jealousy -- Personification of Fear gestures, before Personification of Jealousy, wearing hat over hooded mantle, extending right hand, attended by man, wearing red hat, with arms folded.
Scene against patterned background, within frame decorated with two tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Miniature at beginning of text, A CEST MOT VINT PAOURS TRAMBLANT / ET SI FU SI A SOUPPLOYE / ...
Miniature in right column:
2) Roman de la Rose: Scene, Shame and Fear confronting Danger sleeping in Garden -- Beside tree, Personification of Danger lies asleep on ground, before Personification of Shame extending hands toward the Danger, and Personification of Fear with arms folded.
Scene against gold diapered background, within frame decorated with seven tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Miniature between two lines of couplet of text, A CE CONSEIL SE SONT TENUES / PUIS EN SONT DANGIER VENUES / ... (v. 3651 at bottom of left column, v. 3652 below miniature in right column).