Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 009v

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Roman de la Rose: Sadness -- Woman, representing Personification of Sadness, inscribed TRISTESSE to label, wearing tattered clothes with knotted belt, crosses arms on breast and looks upward, her hair flowing behind her.
Roman de la Rose: Old Woman -- Woman, representing Personification of Old Age, inscribed VIEILLESSE to label, wearing veiled headdress and apron, walks leaning on crutches, departing to right.Miniature within architectual frame with decorative scrollwork with dolphin-like ornament at bottom.