Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, ca. 1475
MS M.254 fol. 46v

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Christ: in Gethsemane -- Christ, nimbed, with joined hands raised and looking upwards, kneels in Garden of Gethsemane beneath barren tree and behind three nimbed and sleeping apostles, the foremost possibly Apostle Peter, eyes closed, with head propped on right arm. In background, city buildings against night sky. Decorated border of scrolling foliate and floreate ornament. Miniature at beginning of Matins in Hours of the Virgin