Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 209r

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Within initial G, Mary Magdalen, nimbed, wearing snood and mantle, with both hands holding open book with pseudo-inscriptions, standing beside ointment jar in hilly landscape. Margins decorated with border of strewn flowers including pink and forget-me-not. Miniature at beginning of prayer to Mary Magdalen.