Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
England, perhaps Cambridge, ca. 1320
MS M.107 fol. 226v

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Christ: Presentation -- Joseph the Carpenter, wearing beret-like hat, holding basket with three doves, stands behind Virgin Mary, veiled, extending cross-nimbed Christ Child, with right hand raised in blessing, to draped hands of Simeon of Jerusalem, standing behind draped altar.
Border composed of bands of foliate and geometric ornament and animal masks, inhabited by hybrid men, fantastic animals, and owls. Bands interrupted by quatrefoils with geometric ornament.