Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, ca. 1415
MS M.395 fol. 9r

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Judith: slaying Holofernes -- Judith, with hair in snood, raises sword in right hand above Holofernes, crowned, laying in canopied bed beneath covers. Sheath lays on the bed. Scene in room with arched doorway.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux ornament.
Illustration at start of Judith 12:01.