Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Paris, Rouen, or Tours, ca. 1520
MS M.290 fol. 64r

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Job: with Friends Three and Job: with Wife -- Two men wearing hats, and woman wearing headdress with veil, stand before Job, arms crossed on breast, wearing short loincloth, kneeling on dungheap.
Scene in landscape with castle on hill in distance.
Miniature enclosed in architectural frame decorated with sculptural ornament in cama³aeu including winged head; cameos of woman and of man; cord strung with bow, arrows in sheath, round shield (buckler), swords, armor, and shield; three faced head wearing foliage, and emerging from foliage.