Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1500-1515
M.58 fol. 67v

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Job: with Friends Three -- Three men, one wearing hat, one wearing hood, and the third wearing hood with knotted ornament, stand looking toward Job, lower torso draped, leaning on right hand, indicating the men with left hand. Job is sitting on straw.
Scene in landscape with partially ruined house in background.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including daisy and viola, and inhabited by bird and fantastic animal, all on black ground.