Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 78v

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Trinity: Three Persons -- God, wearing triple-crowned tiara, supports on lap Christ, partly draped in the God’s mantle, and Holy Spirit as youthful male, bare to waist, all with their feet on three individual tripartite globes, left hands to open book and with right hands raised in blessing, all emitting rays within mandorla formed of two edges of busts of nimbed figures. Margin, right: Mask issuing from foliate ornament. Margin, lower: Half-figure of angel, nimbus as rays, with joined hands raised, emerging from bud amid foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including cornflowers and columbines. Text is from Antiphon for Lauds on Trinity Sunday.