Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 18v

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Innocents: Massacre -- Armored soldier, wearing helmet, holding sword in right hand, grasps right shoulder of woman, wearing headdress, turned away from him, holding swaddled infant in both hands. Behind them stand other helmeted soldiers, including one with sword raised in right hand and holding nude infant by the left arm.
Miniature framed by columns connected by decorated arch.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Upper left margins with foliate ornament. In left margin is winged dog.