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Book of Hours
Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1460
MS M.194 fol. 138r

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Miniature:
John Baptist, rayed nimbus, points with right hand to Lamb of God, rays as nimbus, on book with two straps held in left hand. He stands in wooded landscape with river, inhabited by animals, including deer, birds, waterfowl. Spring issues from rocky outcropping in river.
Margins decorated with border of floral and foliate ornament inhabited by two butterflies.



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