Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Langres, ca. 1485-1490
MS M.26 fol. 180r

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Job: seated among Ashes -- Job, wearing loin cloth with holes, is seated on dung heap, with joined hands. To right stand of four men, wearing hats, and one women wearing headdress. Some look toward Job; one averts eyes. Scene with trees and crumbling building in background.
Miniature within arched frame supported by columns and architectural elements.
Margins decorated with floreate and foliate ornament, including large branches, columbine and inhabited by fly, fantastic bird with head on tail, moth.