Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1390
MS G.32 fol. 86v

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Miniature in right column:
1) Roman de la Rose: Scene, False Seeming cutting off Tongue of Slander -- Personification of False Seeming, tonsured,in monk’s habit, with right hand extends razor to mouth of kneeling male Personification of Slander held by Personification of Forced Abstinence, in nun’s wimpled white veil over black habit.
Scene with tree against gold diapered background, within frame decorated with two tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Below miniature. blue initial M with red pen flourishes at beginning of text, MALEBOUCE TANTOST S’ABAISSE / SI S’AGENOULLE ET SE CONFESSE / ...
Miniature in right column:
2) Roman de la Rose: Scene, Slander cast into Pit -- Personification of False Seeming, tonsured, in monk’s habit, casts into pit body of Personification of Slander headlong, prodded down with pilgrim’s staff by Personification of Forced Abstinence, in nun’s wimpled white veil over black habit.
Scene against diapered background, within frame decorated with four tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Above miniature, two lines of couplet of text, NE L’ONT AUTREMENT ENOSSE / PUIS LE RUENT EN UN FOSSE / …