Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Golden legend
Belgium, Bruges, 1445-1465
MS M.672-5 II, fol. 206v

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Mary of Egypt: receiving Communion -- Mary of Egypt, covered with hair, kneels with joined hands at breast before Zosimus of Palestine. Holding chalice in left hand, he extends wafer to Mary. Both figures have scalloped nimbi.
Stag, wolf and lion surround figures within landscape setting.