Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Sacramentary
France, Mont-Saint-Michel, ca. 1060
MS M.641 fol. 9r

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Magi: Adoration -- Three Magi bear gifts on draped hands, approaching Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, seated on cushioned bench, with feet on footstool. She places her hands on shoulders of Christ Child, cross-nimbed, raising His right hand in blessing and holding book in His left hand, seated on her lap.
Scene with architectural frame, within initial D decorated with foliate ornament and interlace, at beginning of Collect for Feast of Epiphany.