Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Amiens, ca. 1480
MS M.198 fol. 51v

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Christ: Flight into Egypt -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, holding swaddled infant Christ Child, nimbed, sits sideways on ass. Beside the ass walks Joseph the Carpenter, carrying bundle on rod over left shoulder. Scene in landscape with trees, hills, distant castle, and starry sky.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament, in curvilinear patterns, inhabited by two birds.