Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Tournai, 1480s
MS M.234 fol. 77v

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Shepherds: Annunciation -- Of two shepherds sitting on ground, raising left hands, one wears hood and the other looks up toward angel in arc of Heaven (?) holding scroll inscribed GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO. Two sheep graze in foreground.
Scene in landscape with fenced fields and city in background.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including strawberry and daisy, and inhabited by snail.