Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Lyon, ca. 1485
MS M.83 fol. 188v

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Virgin Mary: Infancy, Instruction -- Anna, veiled, sits holding open book on her lap. Before her stands Virgin Mary, as young girl, with her hands extended to the book. Scene before open loggia, with distant landscape beyond.
Margin with floreate ornament.