Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS H.5 fol. 25r

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Column miniature:
Christ: Flagellation -- Christ, wearing long loin cloth, stands in front of column, flanked by two men, wearing hats, raising scourges.
Upper vignette:
Jason the High Priest: Death -- Two men, wearing hats, their right hands extended and their left hands raised, stand behind man, reclining on ground, bleeding from wounds. Scene in landscape setting.
Lower vignette:
Antiochus IV: Destruction of Jerusalem -- Menaleus the High Priest (?), wearing hat, extends bag toward Atiochus IV, wearing crown and ermine collar, with hands raised. Scene takes place in front of temple building (represents II Maccabees 5:15-16 (?): profaning the temple).
Caption between vignettes reads, QUOY QUIL FOUIST TROUUE FUT MORT CO(M)ME INDIGNE DE SEPULTURE. PUIS VINT ANTIOCUS FORT QUI PRUIT (?) DE L'OR OULTRE MESURE.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including roses and strawberries, inhabited by bird and by hybrid man, wearing hood, defecating into bowl.
Inscription on scroll in left margin reads, [S]AL[U]E R[E]GIN[A].