Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
England, Winchester or Norwich, ca. 1450
MS M.255 fol. 42v

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Christ: Crucifixion -- Christ, with crossed nimbus, wearing short loin cloth, bleeding from wounds, is affixed with three nails to tau cross with blank scroll-like titulus. To left are Virgin Mary, veiled, with hands crossed on her breast; Mary Magdalen, veiled, with her hand on shoulder of the Virgin; Evangelist John, and another figure, all nimbed. To right are three horsemen, wearing hats, and a fourth man, wearing turban-like headdress. Sun and moon in sky.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament, inhabited in left margin by dog (?) and seated nude man, and in lower margin by peacock.