Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1440
MS W.3 fol. 18v

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Pentecost -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, holding open book with both hands, sits amid twelve apostles, nimbed, four holding books, many seated, one on chair, three only head visible, one only nimbus visible, ten looking up dove of Holy Ghost hovering amid rays below cloud.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament and with escutcheon with heraldry incorporating the arms of the Seigneur de Lannoy (argent, three lions vert crowned or).