Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1430-1435
MS M.359 fol. 74r

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Christ: Parable, Laborers in Vineyard -- Man, wearing chaperon hat and fur-lined garment, pays (?) two laborers, both carrying hoes over left shoulder and extending right hands. Scene in bare vineyard, with distant tree and sky. Scene in medallion in right margin.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux, foliate, and vinescroll ornament.