Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Paris, between 1340 and 1350
MS M.48 fol. 3r

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Roman de la Rose: Envy -- Personification of Envy, name inscribed ENUIE in rubric, wearing bicolored draped hat in red and white, sits on bench, raises her right hand to her face, and extends her left arm.
Figure against diapered background decorated with fleur-de-lis within pink frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils on three sides.
Above miniature, rubric label, ENUIE.
In right column, champide initial A of Apres decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, AP(RE)S REFU P(O)URTRAITE ENUIE / QUI NE RIST ONQ(UE)S EN SA UIE.