Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, possibly Haarlem, 1496
MS S.2 fol. 61v

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Christ: meeting Samaritan Woman -- Samaritan woman, wearing hat, standing beside wellhead, pours water from bucket into jar. Beside her stands Christ, gesturing. Scene in initial G.
Margin with floreate ornament, with vignette:
Scene, Burlesque: Instruction (?) -- Two animals sit on hindquarters before larger animal, wearing monk's (?) robes, gesturing.