Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, ca. 1470
MS M.93 fol. 68v

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Christ: Flight into Egypt, Fall of Idols -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, is seated sideways on bridled ass, holding swaddled Christ Child, cross-nimbed. Joseph the Carpenter, wearing hat, walks before ass, holding reins with right hand and, with left hand, draped pedum over left shoulder. Behind them is column, from which broken idol falls. Scene in landscape with hills.
Margins decorated with floreate border.