Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465
MS S.6 fol. 132v

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Innocents: Massacre -- Herod of the Great, crowned, holding scepter in right hand, seated on throne with animal figures on the armrests, with left hand indicates helmeted soldier, holding sword in right hand, and with left hand extended to woman, wearing headdress, fallen on ground, holding nude infant in left arm, and with right arm raised to the soldier. Scene in room with leaded-glass windows and patterned tile floor.
Margins with floreate ornament.