Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Job: Death -- Job, wearing nightcap, lays beneath covers in canopied bed. Nude personification of soul is lifted by angel toward God, nimbed, in arc of heaven emanating rays. Scene in half-circular vignette in left margin.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux, foliate, and vinescroll ornament.