Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 10v

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Christ: Nativity -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, and Joseph the Carpenter, nimbed, wearing hood and with purse at waist, stand with joined hands and flank nude Christ Child, laying on straw in basket-like manger. Behind them stand ox and ass, and choir of angels.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with bands of foliate ornament. In left margin is fantastic animal with hoop around body; in right margin are half-figures of four angels, with joined hands raised.
Text is Hymn of St. Ambrose.