Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465
MS S.6 fol. 140v

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Christ: Flight into Egypt -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, seated sideways on ass, holds in her lap Christ Child, nimbed. Leading the ass is Joseph the Carpenter, wearing hat, carrying bundle on crutch over his right shoulder. Scene in landscape with trees, hills, and distant building with tower.
Margins with floreate ornament.