Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, possibly Haarlem, 1496
MS S.2 fol. 119v

See more information »

Mercy Acts: Corporal -- Two fossors dig grave with shovels; priest, wearing vestments, holding aspergil, stands beside the grave (Scene, Liturgical: Burial, Grave-digging). Scene in initial B.
Margin with floreate ornament, inhabited by cripple, with misshapen foot, seated on ground beside hand crutch.