Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Amiens, ca. 1480
MS M.198 fol. 120r

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Virgin Mary: Infancy, Instruction -- Anna, nimbed, veiled, sits on bench before cloth of honor, holding in her lap open book with pseudo-inscription, gestures with right hand toward Virgin Mary, nimbed, as young girl, wearing ermine-trimmed garment, kneeling before Anna. Scene in room with tile floor, with landscape with trees and distant hills visible through doorway or window.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament, in curvilinear patterns, inhabited by spotted fantastic animal with beak.