Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 121v

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, False Seeming cutting off Tongue of Slander -- Dominican friar, representing Personification of False Seeming, tonsured, wearing hooded habit, extends knife in right hand to tongue of man, representing Personification of Slander, leaning back with raised arms, his head held by Dominican nun, representing Personification of Forced Abstinence, wearing veiled habit with wimple.
Scene before wall and buildings with hilly landscape and water in background.