Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 108r

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, God of Love presenting Crown to False Seeming -- God of Love (Eros), crowned, winged, wearing short loin cloth knotted at waist, body slung with quiver filled with arrows, lower legs decorated, extends crown in both hands to head of tonsured Dominican friar representing Personification of False Seeming, kneeling, with joined hands raised, his shoulders supported from behind by Dominican nun, representing Personification of Forced Abstinence, wearing veiled habit with wimple.
In background, group of men and women walk side by side, the foremost man, wearing hat and ermine-trimmed cloak, holds scepter (most with only heads visible).Miniature within architectual frame hung with tassels and with decorative scrollwork.