Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Literary
France, 1348
MS M.772 fol. 75r

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1) P³•lerinage: Scene, Pilgrim with Gluttony -- Pilgrim (Guillaume de Deguileville), tonsured, wearing monk's habit and pilgrim's scrip with strap across his breast, holding staff in left hand, looks over left shoulder toward Gluttony, wearing headdress, with bag hanging from her mouth and funnel over her shoulder, extending both hands toward the Pilgrim.
2) P³•lerinage: Scene, Pilgrim with Venus -- Venus (Personification of Lust), wearing headdress, seated on boar, holds mask in right hand and with dart held in left hand pierces eye of Pilgrim (Guillaume de Deguileville), wearing monk's habit and hood, and pilgrim's scrip with strap across his breast, holding staff in right hand.
Miniatures executed in grisaille with color accents.