Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1470
M.59 fol. 131v

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Three clerics, tonsured, stand behind draped bier. In the foreground is candlestick and two mourners. Scene in vaulted room with three windows.
Margin decorated with floreate border, inhabited by bird.