Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470
MS M.32 fol. 9v

See more information »

Margin, upper: Personification of Vice, Gluttony, inscribed GLOUTONITE, is represented by man, wearing hat and jug suspended at waist, with left hand raising food toward his mouth, accompanied by winged, horned devil with claw feet. Figures stand in room with three arched windows, decorative wall and tiled floor. Arched vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including thistles. Margin, lower: Job: with Friends Three -- Beneath rays and starry sky, Job, nude, covered with sores, reclines on heap of ashes, raising left hand toward basket filled with round objects, possibly coins (?), extended in right hand of one of Friends Three; behind them, stand two friends, wearing hats and playing flutes (suggesting link with Zodiac Sign: Cancer). Scene in hilly landscape with trees and city in background. Square vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including daisies. Block border at left of floreate and foliate decoration, including currants.