Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 118r

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, False Seeming and Forced Abstinence as Pilgrims -- Dominican friar, tonsured, representing Personification of False Seeming, wearing hooded habit, holds book with left hand and with right hand leans on pilgrim's staff facing Dominican nun, representing Personification of Forced Abstinence, wearing veiled habit with wimple, with purse slung over body, under her right arm are book and rosary, with right hand holding pilgrim's staff and with left hand extended.
Scene in garden before wall and part of building behind which is hilly landscape.