Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1390-1400
MS M.141 fol. 40v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, right hand on abdomen, and Elizabeth, wearing wimple, extending left hand toward abdomen of Virgin Mary, stand in partial embrace. Both are nimbed. Trees in background.
Miniature in framed barbed quatrefoil. Initial D with foliate ornament. In margins, rectilinear bars with foliate ornament.