Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1460-1470
MS W.28 fol. 56v

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Virgin Mary: Annunciation -- Archangel Gabriel, extending right hand, holding with left hand scroll inscribed AVE GRACIA PLENA D(OMIN)US, looks toward Virgin Mary, nimbed, right hand on breast, kneeling at draped prie-dieu, looking at Gabriel. Between them is vase containing lily. Next to Virgin Mary is draped, canopied bed. At upper left, half figure of God, crossed nimbus, raising right hand, holding tripartite globe with left hand, appears on cloud (?). Dove of Holy Ghost flies amid rays from God to Virgin Mary.
Scene in vaulted room with tile floor, open to landscape.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament.