Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Régime du corps
France, perhaps Rouen, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.0165 fol. 47r

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Physician, wearing cap and ermine-trimmed robe, seated on chair of canopy-type, gestures toward another man, wearing fur-lined coat, with garment slung over left shoulder (Scene, Secular: Instruction). Scene in room with tiled floor and decorated background; all within initial E decorated with pen flourishing. Initial at beginning of Part I, Chapter Twenty One in Aldobrandino da Siena, Régime du Corps.