Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS H.5 fol. 132r

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Upper vignette:
Judas Maccabaeus: Cleansing of Sanctuary -- Man, wearing hat, stands on scaffold, holds trowel in left hand, and has right hand in trug with plaster. Beside him is half-finished tower and building, behind which is landscape.
Lower vignette:
Judas Maccabaeus: Cleansing of Sanctuary -- Man, wearing hat, with scimitar hanging from chain over his shoulder, raises right hand and looks up at building with portal. Beside him is man, extending hat in left hand and raising right hand.
Caption between vignettes reads, LE TEMPLE FUT AUIRONNE DE MURAULLE TO(US) [?] TOURNELLES DONT MAINT HO(M)ME FUT ESTONNE QUA(N)T IL EN OUYT LES NOUUELLES.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including thistles, violas, columbines, and strawberries, inhabited by half-figure of bear emerging from flower and holding scimitar in both hands and by hybrid animal.
Head of dog in decorated initial B.