Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 77v

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Beneath decorated canopy inscribed IHESVS NASEARENVS REX, Christ Child, nimbed, nude, wearing transparent robe, with right hand raised in blessing and with left hand holding cross-surmounted globe, standing on pedestal, the flaps of the canopy drawn by pair of angels. Margins decorated with borders of strewn flowers, including white rose and forget-me-not, and inhabited by two moths and reclining stag. Miniature facing the beginning of the Gratiarum actio.