Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Histoire de la Bible et de l’Assomption de Notre-Dame
France, Paris, between 1390 and 1400
MS M.526. Fol. 034r

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John Baptist: Scene, Bones recovered -- In upper left column, two men wearing hats, one holding staff, one with sack over left shoulder, and woman, wearing wimpled veil, kneel on ground picking up bones.
Christ: Temptation, 1st -- In lower left column, Christ, crossed nimbus, holding book with left hand, with right hand indicates stone held in right hand of horned devil.Pen-flourished initials.