Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1470
MS H.7 fol. 146v

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Mary Magdalen, as half figure, rays as nimbus, nude to waist, her hands joined, is in cave, with ointment jar in foreground.
Scene in landscape setting with buildings of city, possibly Marseille, in background, within decorated initial M.
Upper and lower margins decorated with floreate border.