Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance
France, Angers, between 1455 and 1460
MS M.705 fol. 33r

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Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance: Parable of Cart Driver -- Crowned noblewoma sits in cart pulled by two horses, including one hitched to shaft of cart, with its eyes covered, and upon which the cart driver, wearing hat and holding whip, is astride. The other horse is yoked in front of the first, with its ears covered. Scene in landscape with trees and road.