Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Loire, ca. 1475
MS G.1.I fol. 81r

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Christ: Flight into Egypt -- Virgin Mary, veiled with wimple, is seated sideways on bridled ass (donkey), holding Christ Child. Joseph the Carpenter, raising knife with right hand, grasping branch of tree with left hand, stands near head of the ass.
Scene in landscape with road, trees, hills and buildings, including church, in background.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including rose, and inhabited by doves (?), and wild man holding object. In lower margin, initials I and B bound together with knotted cord.