Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Poésies
Northeastern France, 1425-1430
MS M.396. Fol. 215r

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Voie de Povreté et de Richesse: Scene, Jacques Bruyant and his Wife visited by Need, Necessity, Suffering, Want, Poverty, and Misfortune -- Jacques Bruyant and his Wife, the latter with eyes closed, both with heads covered, lay under covers with their heads on pillows, visited by two male and four female personifications of Need, Necessity, Suffering, Want, Poverty, and Misfortune, the women wearing headdresses, one of the butterfly type.