Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, Lyons, 1484
MS M.1162. Fol. 075v

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Christ: Presentation -- Female attendant, wearing headdress, attends Virgin Mary, veiled, extending Christ Child, nude, above draped altar toward draped hands of Simeon, wearing high priest's miter, beneath canopy.
In background, Joseph the Carpenter, holding candle in left hand, stands beside two male attendants, one wearing hat (only heads visible).
Interior scene with paneled walls and window through which rays descend from left.
Miniature within architectural frame, enclosing two standing figures, possibly prophets, in architectural niches.