Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, 1500-1525
MS M.31 fol. 84v

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Magi: Adoration -- Virgin Mary, rays as nimbus, is seated, holding nude Christ Child on her lap. He reaches toward open vessel held by eldest Magus, kneeling on one knee. Of the other two Magi standing behind him, one wears hat, and holds covered vessel in left hand, and the third, black, is removing (?) hat with right hand and extending covered vessel with left hand.
Scene in landscape with classical pediment on which Virgin Mary is seated, and with ruined building in background.