Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Ferrara, ca. 1480
MS M.187 fol. 58v

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Innocents: Massacre -- Soldier, raising dagger with right hand, grasps swaddled infant held by woman. Another infant is on floor, bleeding. At left four men, and at right, six women look on.
Scene in initial C in room.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by two rabbits and bear wearing collar.