Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465
MS S.6 fol. 114v

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Shepherds: Annunciation -- Angel, holding blank scroll, appears above two shepherds, including one with staff, and a shepherdess, wearing kerchief, holding distaff and spindle. One of the shepherds holds the hem of her apron. All stand in field amid flock of sheep in landscape with trees and distant city.
Margins with floreate ornament.