Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 112v

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Anna, Virgin Mary and Christ Child -- Virgin Mary and Anna, wearing headdress and wimple, are seated, both holding nude Christ Child between them. He looks back over shoulder toward Virgin Mary and reaches left hand toward Anna. Above them, dove of Holy Ghost hovers in mandorla. Kneeling in foreground is female donor, wearing headdress, with joined hands, and with rosary attached to girdle. Scene in windowed, wood paneled room.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent). Text, Suffrages.