Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1390
MS G.32 fol. 106v

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Miniature in left column:
1) Roman de la Rose: Scene, Frankness and Tender Glance finding Venus and Adonis resting after Hunting -- Attended by male Personification of Tender Glance, wearing tunic, armed with spear, Personification of Frankness extends inscribed letter with seal (?) toward Venus, crowned, wearing red patterned garment, with right hand on Adonis, wearing tunic, both seated on ground; in foreground dog wades in water issuing from wellhead, beside tree; castle on hill in background.
Scene against diapered background, within frame decorated with two tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Miniature at beginning of text, VENUS YERT EN UNE ALEE / POUR CACHIER EN UNE VALEE / ...
Miniature in right column:
2) Roman de la Rose: Scene, Venus instructing Adonis on Dangers of Hunting -- Venus, crowned, raises left hand and extends right hand toward Adonis, wearing tunic, with arms folded, both standing beside forest; castle on hill in background.
Scene against diapered background, within frame decorated with two tendrils of trefoil leaves.
Miniature at beginning of text, OU CEUR HARDI SONT AHURTE / NULZ HARDEMENS N’A SEURTE / …