Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 12r

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Top margin with roses.
Margins with five vignettes in architectural framework (described top to bottom):
1) Eligius of Noyon, wearing bishop's miter and vestments, sits on chair and holds crozier in left hand.
2) Nicholas of Myra, wearing bishop's vestments and miter with infulae, holding crozier in left hand, with right hand indicates three nude tonsured youths standing in barrel with joined hands raised.
3) Joachim and Anna: at Golden Gate -- Joachim, wearing hat, with purse at waist, embraces Anna, veiled, both nimbed, standing in front of Golden Gate.
4) Lucy of Syracuse, nimbed, stands with joined hands raised.
5) Month, Occupation: December -- Baker, wearing hat and apron, holds loaf on baker's peel before opening in oven.