Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1430-1435
MS M.359 fol. 160v

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Job: communicating with God -- Job, wearing purse at waist, kneels with joined hands raised below God, nimbed, holding cross-surmounted globe in left hand and with right hand in gesture of blessing (?), in arc of heaven, emanating rays. Scene in landscape with trees and sky. Scene in half-circular vignette in left margin.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux, foliate, and vinescroll ornament.