Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Ferrara, ca. 1480
MS M.187 fol. 24v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, and Elizabeth, nimbed and veiled with wimple, embrace next to building.
Scene in floreate initial D.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by mouse, rabbit and night heron (?).