Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Miscellany
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1370
MS M.800 fol. 17v

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Christ: Nativity -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, kneels (?) and raises her right hand toward swaddled Christ Child, cross-nimbed, lying in crib behind which are ass and ox.
Scene within initial P decorated with foliate ornament, at beginning of notated Preface at Christmas.