Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1420-1430
MS M.27 fol. 15r

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John Baptist: Birth and John Baptist: Naming -- Elizabeth, nimbed, reclines in draped, canopied, bed. Next to bed stand midwife, holding infant John Baptist, nimbed and swaddled; man wearing hat raising right hand; Zacharias, wearing hood, leaning on bed and writing with stylus on tablet; third man looking on.
Initial on gold background. Ornament of rinceaux in margins.