Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
France, Tours, ca. 1500
M.495 fol. 121v

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Virgin Mary: Annunciation -- Archangel Gabriel, nimbed, extending right hand, holding scepter with left hand stands facing Virgin Mary, nimbed, raising right hand. She stands next to draped bench (?). Dove, rays as cross (?) nimbus descends amid rays toward Mary.
Interior scene with wall decorated with vine scroll, and figure and bird amid foliage
Border around two sides of the miniature of blue foliate ornament, cornucopias, strings of beads on blue ground, terminating with excutcheon decorated with heraldry of Guillaume Lallemant (gules a chevron or between three roses argent centered or).
Viola enclosed within initial R; columbine within initial D.