Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Régime du corps
France, perhaps Rouen, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.0165 fol. 56r

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Woman, wearing butterfly henin and long sleeved, belted robe trimmed in ermine, raises mirror with left hand looking toward it, beside draped table on which are two cups and pitcher. Scene in room with tiled floor and filigree background; all within initial P decorated with pen flourishing. Initial in Part II in Aldobrandino da Siena, Régime du Corps.