Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, probably Tours, ca. 1530-1535
MS M.452 fol. 97v

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Job: with Friends Three and Wife -- Job, partially draped, sits on dungheap before his wife, wearing headdress, pointing toward him with right hand, and three friends, one pointing toward him and the other pointing toward ruined building in background. In distance is castle.
Scene enclosed in architectural frame with carved columns.