Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 164r

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Christ: Presentation -- Nimbed woman, possibly Prophetess Anna, holding basket of dove with right hand and raising left hand, and Joseph the Carpenter, with joined hands raised (partly visible), flank Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, with joined hands raised, standing before draped altar, over which nude Christ Child, cross-nimbed, is supported in draped hands of Simeon, wearing turban-like headgear. Scene in room of temple with tiled floor, three windows and portal to left. Margin, center: Mask issuing from foliate ornament. Margin, lower: Angel extending right hand to stem amid foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including thistles and daisies. Text is from Lauds for Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (02.02).