Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 92r

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Acanthus leaves and scrolls frame the title and above it a mountainous landscape with falling manna, surmounted by a monstrance on an altar flanked by censers. Bunches of grapes, cornucopias of flowers, including roses, and pots and bowls for preparing the manna fill the side spaces. A marble plinth holds the quatrain at the foot. The frame consists of burnished and dull gold bands.