Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1430-1435
MS M.359 fol. 173r

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Job: Death -- Job, wearing nightcap, lays beneath covers in canopied bed. Beside the bed with joined hands raised kneel Job's wife, wearing butterfly headdress, and young girl and boy. Diapered background. Scene in medallion in right margin.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux, foliate, and vinescroll ornament.