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Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 61v

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Christ: Presentation -- Anna the Prophetess, holding basket containing two doves in right hand and candle in left hand stands behind Virgin Mary, nimbed, holding Christ Child, crossed nimbus, nude. She kneels on one knee, before draped altar with canopy. Behind altar Simeon, wearing high priest miter, extends draped hands over altar; at his right stands man, wearing conical hat. Scene in windowed room hung with tapestries inscribed LUMEN AD RE[UALATIONEM]; SERUUM TUUM DOMINE SECUNDUM; NUNC DI[MITTIS].
Margins decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by two rabbits. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).



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