Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 20r

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1) Christ Child: Infancy, taken to School (?) -- Virgin Mary, veiled, and Joseph the Carpenter, wearing hat, holding crutch (?) in right hand, both nimbed, stand in arched doorway with Christ Child, with crossed rays as nimbus.
2) Virgin Mary and Joseph: Scene, unidentified (?) -- Virgin mary, nimbed, veiled, with hands crossed on her breast, stands with Joseph the Carpenter (?), nimbed, wearing hood. In background are houses.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with foliate ornament. In lower margin is bird.