Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1440
M.303 fol. 33r

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, and Elizabeth, nimbed and veiled with wimple, wearing ermine lined mantle, embrace in barren landscape with building and tree.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including cornflower and inhabited by birds including magpie.