Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 26r

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Christ: noli me tangere -- Mary Magdalen, nimbed, holding ointment jar, kneels (?) before Christ, with crossed rays as nimbus, wearing mantle, showing wound in side, with right hand extended toward Mary and holding cross-staff in left hand.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with zig-zag bands of foliate ornament.