Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps in Bourges, ca. 1460
M.430 fol. 210r

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John Baptist, nimbed, wearing skins, with right forefinger indicating nimbed lamb he holds in draped left hand. The lamb holds bannered cross staff. Figure in landscape setting with ship and buildings of city in distance.
In margin is floreate border, including roses, inhabited by snail and moth.