Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Tournai, ca. 1480-1490
MS M.171 fol. 248r

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Scene, Liturgical: Extreme Unction -- Man, wearing turban type of headgear, nude, reclines in draped canopy bed. Monk, tonsured, wearing habit, extends with right hand, candle to right hand of the man. Another man wearing hat, hands clasped on breast stands next to him. On opposite side of bed, aspergil in situla full of water is on floor next to another monk, tonsured, wearing habit, back turned, holding open book. Woman, veiled with wimple (?), hands clasped on breast is next to him; man, possibly soldier wearing helmet, stands behind her, his hands on her shoulders.