Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470
MS M.32 fol. 8v

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Margin, upper: Personification of Vice, Avarice, inscribed AVARICE, is represented by man, wearing hat, holding scales in right hand, seated at table, on which are coins, accompanied by winged, horned devil hovering at right. Figures in room with two arched windows, decorative wall and tiled floor. Arched vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberries. Margin, lower: Eve: Creation -- Beneath starry sky and rays descending from arc of heaven, Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, wearing purple mantle, raises right hand in blessing and with left hand grasps left arm of Eve, drawing her from side of Adam, name inscribed ADAM, reclining asleep under tree (suggesting link with Zodiac Sign: Gemini). Figures in hilly landscape with trees. Square vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration. Block border at left margin with floreate and foliate decoration, including roses.