Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Literary
France, 1348
MS M.772 fol. 39r

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1) P³•lerinage: Scene, Reason with Ignorance -- Ignorance, bearded, wearing hood, with right foot raised, stands and leans on club before Reason, with left hand removing letter with seal from case held in right hand.
2) P³•lerinage: Scene, Reason with Ignorance -- Ignorance, bearded, wearing hood, stands and leans on club held with both hands. Beside him stands Pilgrim (Guillaume de Deguileville), tonsured, wearing monk's habit and pilgrim's scrip with sash across his breast, with pilgrim's staff, and holding letter with hanging seal with both hands. Reason, holding letter case in left hand, points to the letter with right hand.
Miniatures executed in grisaille with color accents.