Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, perhaps Metz, 1370-1380
MS M.88 fol. 168v

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Innocents: Massacre -- Herod the Great, crowned, seated on bench with legs crossed, raises right hand toward two soldiers, one in armor with spear transfixing body of infant, another in chain mail with sword piercing infant.
Scene against gold background within foliate initial D.
Left margin:
Bird.
Lower margin (bas-de-page):
Rabbit emerging from burrow.