Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Provence, ca. 1470-1480
MS M.1107 fol. 113r

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Job: seated among Ashes (?) -- Job (?), with arms crossed on his breast, lays on dungheap (?). Beside him stands woman, wearing cap, holding dish in left hand and cover in right hand. Scene in landscape with trees and distant hills.
Margins with floreate ornament, inhabited by bird.