Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 30v

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Pentecost -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, with joined hands, kneels and looks up. She is flanked by twelve Apostles, nimbed, each with tongue of fire on nimbus. All kneel, some with joined hands. Above, dove of Holy Ghost, nimbed, hovers amid flames. Scene in windowed room with drapery background, inscribed EMITTE SPIRITUM TUUM ET CREABUNTUR ET RENOVABIS FACIEM TERRE.
Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including strawberry, inhabited by rabbit and bird. In left margin, heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules).