Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 27v

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Virgin Mary: Scene, unidentified -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, stands and indicates with right hand group of apostles or monks, with arms crossed and hands tucked inside robes.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with bands of blue foliate alternating with polychrome floreate bands. In left margin is fantastic animal with knotted neck.