Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 51v

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Christ: Temptation -- Christ, with crossed rays as nimbus, gestures with right hand toward horned devil with fangs.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with foliate ornament in chequered pattern. In left margin is bird; in lower margin is moth.