Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Paris, Rouen, or Tours, ca. 1520
MS M.290 fol. 20r

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, stands extending right hand and placing left hand on right shoulder of Elizabeth, wearing turban style of headdress with wimple, kneeling, with hands extended. Two Angels stand behind Virgin Mary.
Scene in landscape with castle on hill in background.
Miniature enclosed in architectural frame decorated with sculptural ornament in cama³aeu including two addorsed animals on capital; two putti standing on foliate capital, one reaching to cord strung with beads; winged wild man (?) holding club, in mouth of fantastic fish; putti, one only partially visible; three medallions in which are profiles of busts of man wearing knotted headgear, woman wearing fillet (?) and man wearing hat.