Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges or Ghent, ca. 1490
MS G.10 fol. 1r

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, with rays as nimbus, veiled, head inclined, with left hand on breast, extends right hand to hands of Elizabeth, nimbed, wearing veil, wimple, and headdress, inscribed PHSIR... In background, two figures on winding road to house on hilltop surrounded by trees.