Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1430-1435
MS M.359 fol. 170v

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Job: with Friends Three -- Job, wearing short loin cloth, with sores on his body, sits on dung heap. Beside the dung heap are three friends, including one wearing hat and playing horn, one playing psaltery, and one playing viol. Scene in landscape with trees and sky. Scene in medallion in left margin.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux, foliate, and vinescroll ornament.