Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1440
M.303 fol. 48r

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Shepherds: Annunciation -- One of five shepherds stands holding rod or pedum with both hands; two, one wearing hat on back, the other wearing hood, look up toward three angels holding scroll in rayed arc of Heaven; fourth shepherd is fishing (?) in stream; the last shepherd sits on ground in background. Sheep throughout. Wellhead or trough in background.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including daisy and dianthus growing in shallow, footed pot.