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Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1494
MS M.1078 fol. 112v

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Jesse: Tree -- Virgin Mary, wearing fillet, with rays as nimbus, stands and holds nude infant Christ Child, with crossed rayed nimbus amid branches of Jesse Tree, growing from torso of Jesse, laying below. Amid the branches are twelve crowned ancestors of Christ, including David, holding harp.
Margins with scattered dianthus flowers, inhabited by birds and butterfly.



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