Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.1170. Fol. 029r

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Three-quarter figures of Virgin Mary, nimbus as rays, and Elizabeth, nimbed, veiled with wimple, joining extended left hands; before building and landscape.
Miniature for beginning of Lauds of Hours of the Virgin.
Margins inhabited by bird, possibly goldfinch, and scattered with naturalistic flowers including rose and viola; against gold background.