Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 011r

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Roman de la Rose: Hypocrisy -- Nun, representing Personification of Hypocrisy, inscribed PAPELARDIE to label, wearing habit with wimple, extends rosary with left hand with book tucked under left arm, departing to left.
Roman de la Rose: Poverty -- Woman, representing Personification of Poverty, inscribed POVRETE to label, wearing veiled headdress and tattered dress, extends dish and staff with right hand and raises left hand under collar, looking back over right shoulder.Miniature within architectual frame with decorative scrollwork enclosing mask at bottom.