Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 15v

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Magi: Adoration -- Two magi, wearing crowns, one holding covered vessel, stand behind third magus, kneeling (?) and holding open box before nude Christ Child, with crossed rays as nimbus, extending right hand toward the box, seated on lap of Virgin Mary, nimbed.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Tree branches as line endings.
Margins with foliate ornament. In lower left corner is bird with extended wings.