Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Angers, between 1465 and 1470
M.248 fol. 83r

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Job: with Friends Three -- Job, nude, raising right hand, gesturing with left hand, is seated on dung or ash heap, his body partially covered. He looks toward three men, wearing hats, standing next to the heap. One raises right hand; the second gestures with both hands; and the third looks away.
Scene in landscape with ruined building in background.
Below miniature is inscribed DILEXI Q(UONIA)M EXAVDIET D(OMI)N(U)S VOCE(M) O(RATI)O(N)IS MEE QVIA INCLINAV(I)T (Psalm 116, Vulg., 114:1-2)