Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 63v

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Job: with Second Family -- Job, clothed and wearing hat, sits at table and holds bowl in left hand. Four youths, wearing hats, flank Job. On table are two salt cellars (?), loaf, and platter with food.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with zig-zag bands of foliate ornament. In left margin is fantastic animal.