Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, possibly Florence, ca. 1470-1489
MS M.1083 fol. 13r

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Virgin Mary: Adoration of Christ Child -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, kneels with joined hands raised to nude infant Christ Child, nimbed, laying on her mantle on ground. Shed and distant landscape in background. Scene in decorated initial D.
Floreate margins, with three busts of young women, including two with joined hands raised; cherub, standing in side margin; and two cherubs in lower margin, supporting wreath enclosing blank escutcheon.