Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol.118r

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Noah: in Ark -- Within initial D, Noah and another, possibly his Wife, standing at prow of Ark, looking toward hovering dove of Holy Ghost, holding branch in its beak. Margins decorated with strewn border of flowers including borage, pink, pea, and currant, and inhabited by moth. Miniature at beginning of Vespers in Short Hours of the Holy Spirit.