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Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1490
MS M.380 fol. 78v

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Job: with Friends Three, and Job: seated among Ashes -- Among three friends, one, wearing hat, stands with hands on shoulders of two kneeling, one wearing hat and pouch at waist, with arms folded, and the other with joined hands raised, all before Job, white-haired and bearded, partly nude, covered with boils, with hands joined, seated on ash heap with pieces of bones or sticks. Ruined building and tree.
Landscape with buildings visible in background.
Miniature and text framed by foliate border decorated with flowers.
Initial D decorated with foliate ornament begins Psalm 116 (Vulg., 114) of the Office of the Dead.



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