Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance
France, Angers, between 1455 and 1460
MS M.705 fol. 50r

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Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance: Soul gives her Heart to Fear of God and Contrition -- Female personification of Soul, veiled, with both hands extends her heart to female personifications of Fear of God, and Contrition, veiled, bare-breasted, and holding switches under left arm. Behind the Soul is dilapidated house. Landscape and starry sky in background.