Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Roman de la Rose: Sadness -- Personification of Sadness, name inscribed TRISTESCE in rubric, wearing veil, stands and with her hands pulls tresses of her long hair.
Figure against diapered background within pink and blue frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils on three sides.
Above miniature, rubric label, TRISTESCE.
Below miniature, champide initial D of De decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, DE LES E(N)UIE AUQ(UE)S P(RE)S IERE / TRISTESCE PAI(N)TE E(N) LA MAISIERE.