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Roman de la Rose
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1390
MS G.32 fol. 62r

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Miniature in right column:
Roman de la Rose: Scene, Jealous Husband beating Wife -- Hooded husband, wearing tunic, with left hand pulls hair of and with right hand grasps neck of wife.
Scene against gold diapered background within frame decorated with six tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Miniature at beginning of text, QU’IL LI DIST QUELLE EST NICE ET FOLE / QUANT TANT DEMEURE A LA CAROLE [> QUEROLE] / …



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