Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 120v

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, Forced Abstinence and False Seeming reproaching Slander -- Dominican nun, representing Personification of Forced Abstinence, wearing veiled habit with wimple, with purse slung on body, with rosary and book in right hand and with left hand holding pilgrim's staff beside Dominican friar, representing Personification of False Seeming, tonsured, wearing hooded habit, holding book under left arm and pilgrim's staff under right arm, gesturing.
Both looking at man, representing Personification of Slander, raising right hand with left hand resting on left knee, seated on bench in garden.Miniature within gold frame.