Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Artois, early 14th century
MS G.59 fol. 29v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Elizabeth, veiled, nimbed, places her right hand on the breast of veiled Virgin Mary, scalloped nimbus, holding a book in her left hand. Scene within a crocketed trefoil architectural frame and a finial, within initial D decorated with interlace and foliage, with heraldic background of roundels of rampant lions and displayed eagles and with diapered spandrels.
Margins - Rectilinear bars decorated with foliage, and inhabited by a squirrel, hybrid man wearing hat, and bird; a lion on the initial spandrel.