Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Paris, between 1340 and 1350
MS M.48 fol. 4r

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Roman de la Rose: Old Age -- Man representing Personification of Old Age, name inscribed VIELLESCE in rubric, white-bearded, wearing hood with wimple, walks, leaning on crutches.
Figure against diapered background decorated with fleur-de-lis within frame of miniature decorated with foliate tendrils on two sides.
Above miniature, rubric label, VIELLESCE.
Below miniature, champide initial A of Apres decorated with foliate ornament and tendrils, at beginning of text, AP(RE)S FU UIELLESCE POURT(RE)ITE / Q(UI) ESTOIT BIEN I PIE RET(RE)ITE.