Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 58r

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Below a plaque edged in gold with the inscription, EDENT CARNES NOCTE ILLA ASSAS IGNI is a scene painted as if a tapestry. Within an interior a woman on the left, with a child at her side, sits shredding greens into a basket. In the center a woman places a cloth on a tripodal table with cabriole legs, each terminating in a deer foot. To the right a youth holds a pitcher. Behind, servants prepare cakes of unleavened bread and a man places a lamb on a gridiron over a hearth fire before an open fireplace. Through an open doorway several figures approach on a road lined with buildings beyond which are mountains. There is a quatrain at the bottom. The frame consists of burnished and dull gold bands.