Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS M.365. Fol. 140v

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Mary Cleophas and Mary Salome, both nimbed, hold jars in their left hands, one wearing headdress and indicating jar with right hand. Figures are in landscape setting.
Margins are decorated with floreate border, inhabited by half-figure of man wearing hat, indicating leaf (?) with right hand, emerging from foliage.