Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Amiens, ca. 1480
MS M.198 fol. 33v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, with rayed nimbus, is embraced by Elizabeth, with rayed nimbus, wearing wimpled veil. Both stand on path before wattle wall, behind which stands Zacharias (?), with cane or crutch in left hand. In background are castle-like houses and lake, with distant mountain.
Initial D inhabited by half-figure of woman, wearing turban-like headdress, holding scroll with illegible (damaged) inscription.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament in diagonal bands, inhabited by moth; monkey (?), wearing crown (?), holding spear (?) and seated on snail shell; and bird.