Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 19v

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Christ: Return from Egypt -- Joseph the Carpenter, and Christ Child, with crossed rays as nimbus, stand behind ass upon which sits Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, with joined hands raised.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with diagonal bands foliate ornament. In left margin is fantastic animal with human face.