Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS H.5 fol. 27v

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Upper vignette:
Maccabees Seven: Martyrdom (II Maccabees 07:04-05: Martyrdom of eldest of Maccabees Seven) -- Eldest of Maccabees Seven, nude, bleeding from wounds, reclines on table, flanked by two tormentors, wearing hats, one raising butcher's knife in right hand, his left hand on the Maccabees's stomach, the other holding knife in right hand to the Maccabees's head. Scene in room.
Lower vignette:
Maccabees Seven: Martyrdom (II Maccabees 07:04-05: Martyrdom of eldest of Maccabees Seven) -- Eldest of Maccabees Seven, nude, his left hand extended, stands before tormentor, wearing hat, holding pot with pincers in right hand and touching the Maccabees's shoulder with left hand. At right, Salomona of Antioch (mother), wearing hat and veil, raising joined hands, stands beside another of Maccabees Seven, arms crossed. Scene in room.
Caption between vignettes reads, LE PREMIER FILS FUT ESCORCHE. LA TESTE LA(N)GUE ET PIES COUPES. PUYS EN VNG POT ARDENT CACHI ET OUUS LES CONDUYS ESTOUPES.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including violas, strawberries, and grapevines, and inhabited by bird and by hybrid man, wearing hood, with hands on pair of hand crutches.