Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Artois, early 14th century
MS G.59 fol. 36v

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Magi: Adoration -- Three magi wear crowns. Two magi stand and hold gifts. The eldest magus kneels and lifts the top of a jar toward Christ Child, cross-nimbed, who raises His right hand in blessing. Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, is seated, supporting the standing Christ Child on her knee. Scene within a crocketed trefoil architectural frame and a finial, within initial D decorated with interlace and foliage and with diapered spandrels.
Margins - Rectilinear bars decorated with foliage, and inhabited by two birds, and a rabbit running.