Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1460
MS M.194 fol. 143r

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Miniature:
Christ: Ecce Homo -- Beneath two arches, male figure holds rope of bound hands of Christ, cross-nimbed, wearing short loincloth, standing before male figure, wearing hat, and Pilate, wearing hat, pointing to the Christ with left hand, and looking toward two male figures, both in front of balustrade.
Margins decorated with border of floral and foliate ornament inhabited by half-figure of man, wearing hat, raising right arm and hybrid animal, possibly deer, with wings.