Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical matutinale and missal of Jean Coeur
France, Bourges, ca. 1465
G.49 fol. 180r

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Virgin Mary: Assumption -- Four angels carry Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, to heaven. Below are two groups of nimbed apostles, kneeling. In background is landscape. Scene is within decorated initial G.
Bird with long neck stands on back of pig in penwork initial N.
Top and bottom margins are decorated with floreate borders. In lower margin is cross-surmounted escutcheon with arms of Jean Coeur (azure, three hearts gules, on a fesse or three escallops argent), flanked by scrolls with inscription MORIR COVIE(N)T SOVE(NT) ADVIE(N)T ET NEN SOVIE(NT).