Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Hours of Henry VIII
France, Tours, ca. 1500
MS H.8 fol. 127v

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Job: with Friends Three -- Job, wearing loincloth, is seated amid ruins on dungheap beside which are pitcher and bowl. Three friends, including one kneeling on one knee, appear before him.
In background is landscape with buildings of city.
Miniature within illusionistic frame.