Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Langres, ca. 1485-1490
MS M.26 fol. 234r

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John Baptist: preaching -- Two men, wearing hats, woman wearing headdress, and another man or woman, are seated, one looking up toward John Baptist, nimbed, wearing animal skin, extending right hand, holding on left hand, Lamb of God, nimbed, holding with right front leg, bannered cross-staff. Scene in landscape with trees, bushes, and hills.
Miniature within arched frame supported by columns and architectural elements.
Margins decorated with floreate and foliate ornament, including large branches and inhabited by birds, fantastic animal, and hybrid man wearing hat.