Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1490
MS M.380 fol. 59r

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Magi: Adoration -- Eldest magus, crown on ground, extends casket filled with coins towards Christ Child, cross-nimbed, nude, seated on lap of Virgin, nimbed, veiled, seated within stable. Middle-aged magus, standing behind eldest, holding vessel in left hand, grasps crown on his head with right hand. Youngest magus, crowned, holds vessel in both hands. To left of stable, soldiers with spears look on.
Landscape with buildings visible through hole in wall of stable.
Miniature and text framed by foliate border decorated with flowers.
Initial D decorated with foliate ornament begins Sext of the Hours of the Virgin.