Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1410-1420
MS M.1073 fol. 27v

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Virgin Mary: Annunciation -- Archangel Gabriel, crowned, holding scroll inscribed AUE GRACIE PLENA DOMINUMS TECUM, kneels on one knee beside vase with lily and before Virgin Mary, with rays as nimbus, with right hand raised, kneeling with left hand on open book on draped prie-dieu. Dove of Holy Ghost descends on rays from arc of heaven enclosing face of God at top left. Patterned floor and diapered background.
Miniature enclosed in fluted frame with quatrefoils at corners, within an outer frame of decorated bands, with ivy-rinceaux ornament extending into margins.