Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, 1495-1500
MS M.271 fol. 81r

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Job: with Friends Three -- Job, wearing short loin cloth, seated on dung heap, gestures to three friends, all wearing hats, one gesturing, standing before Job. In background is house with cracked walls.
In vignette in lower margin:
Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Tonsured priests, wearing vestments, including one holding open book, stand beside cross-inscribed bier. Beside the bier stand four hooded mourners. In background is large group of men, wearing hats, with joined hands.
Miniatures and textblock enclosed in architectural frame.