Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1390
MS G.32 fol. 74v

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Miniature in left column:
1) Roman de la Rose: Scene, God of Love and his Barons -- God of Love (Eros), crowned, winged, with left hand raised and right hand extended, addresses his barony of four female personifications, including Idleness holding mirror, and one with arms folded, Personification of False Seeming, tonsured, in monk’s habit, with right hand extended and pilgrim’s staff in left hand, and Personification of Forced Abstinence, in nun’s habit, with pilgrim’s staff in right hand and scrip over right arm.
Scene against gold filigree on black (?) background within frame decorated with five tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Below miniature, red initial D with blue pen flourishes at beginning of text, DAME HUISEUSE LA GARDINIERE / I VINT O LA PLUS GRANT BANIERE / ...
Miniature in right column:
2) Roman de la Rose: Scene, Forced Abstinence and False Seeming before God of Love -- God of Love (Eros), crowned, winged, with left hand raised and right hand extended, addresses Personification of False Seeming, tonsured, in monk’s habit, with right hand raised and pilgrim’s staff in left hand, and Personification of Forced Abstinence, in nun’s habit, with scrip over shoulder and pilgrim’s staff, with hands lowered.
Scene against gold diapered background within frame decorated with five tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Miniature at beginning of text, SI VOUS PRI QU’IL NE VOUS DESPLAISE / MAINT HONNEUR M’A FAIT ET GRANT AISE / …