Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.52 fol. 434v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, and Elizabeth, nimbed, veiled, partially kneeling, embrace. In background, male figure, possibly Zacharias, stands on bridge. Figures stand outside and inside houses along water.
Scene framed by border decorated with budding and full pinks and inhabited by butterfly.