Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1500-1515
MS M.276 fol. 101r

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Margins with floreate ornament and two vignettes:
1) Lawrence of Rome, nimbed, tonsured, wearing deacon's vestments, stands and holds gridiron in right hand and open book with pseudo-inscription in left hand.
2) Virgin Mary: Infancy, Instruction -- Anna, nimbed, veiled, sits and holds in her lap open book with pseudo-inscription. Before her, with her hands on the book, stands Virgin Mary, nimbed, as young girl.