Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Tournai, 1480s
MS M.234 fol. 74v

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Christ: Nativity -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, with joined hands raised, kneels beside nude Christ Child, nimbed, reclining on straw. Beside him is donkey eating from sheaf of straw on floor. Two angels, one extending left arm, kneel in foreground. Three men, visible through hole in wall approach.
Scene in ruined shed with thatched roof; houses visible through hole in wall of the shed.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including sweet pea and strawberry.