Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Italy, Padua, 1436
MS M.180 fol. 26v

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Virgin Mary: Annunciation -- At left, below arch, Archangel Gabriel, nimbed, holding flowering branch with left hand, gesturing with right hand, kneels. At right, below arch, Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, raising right hand and holding book in left hand, turns and looks over her right shoulder toward Gabriel. Dove descends amid rays coming through window toward abdomen of Mary. She is flanked by lectern and by bench; enclosed bed is behind her.
Interior scene framed by double arch supported by three colonnettes.
Beginning of Gospel reading for feast of the Annunciation, March 25.