Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance
France, Angers, between 1455 and 1460
MS M.705 fol. 38v

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Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance: Parable of poor Woman -- Veiled woman, carrying large sack on her back, steps onto dilapidated bridge over stream. To right is watermill. Scene in landscape.