Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Rouen, ca. 1500
MS M.220 fol. 49v

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Shepherds: Annunciation -- Angel, holding scroll with pseudo-inscription, emerging from cloudy arc of heaven, appears above shepherdess, wearing headscarf, playing tamborine, and two shepherds, including one wearing hat, seated and playing bagpipe, and the other, wearing tall hat, holding staff, kneeling with joined hands raised. Between them are two sheep. Scene in landscape with flocks of sheep around house on hilltop, river with boat, city, and distant hills, including one with windmill.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament, inhabited by crane (?) and by fantastic animal.