Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 179r

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John Baptist, nimbus with rays, wearing garments of skins under mantle, with left hand indicating Lamb of God recumbent on book in his draped right hand. He walks on path in landscape with trees and city in background. Margin, lower: Angel, back-turned, amid foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including daisies and strawberry; floreate sprays issuing from vases in right margin. Text is from Antiphon for Lauds of Feast of Birth of John Baptist (06.24).