Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, ca. 1511
MS M. 8 fol. 177r

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Miniature, upper: Amos, wearing hat, knotted sash at waist, is seated writing in open book on lap. Text is first lesson in first nocturn for Matins on Thursday following fourth Sunday in November. Miniature, middle: Obadiah: Calling -- Obadiah, raising left hand, looks up toward half-figure of God, crossed nimbus, crowned, raising right hand, holding globe with left hand, emerging from cloud of arc. Text is first lesson in first nocturn for Matins on Friday following fourth Sunday in November. Miniature, lower: Jonah: commanded to go to Nineveh -- God as half-figure, crossed nimbus, crowned, holding cross-surmounted globe with left hand, emerges from cloud behind Jonah, wearing hat and knotted sash at waist, raising left hand. Text is first lesson in first nocturn for Matins on Saturday following fourth Sunday in November. Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including holly, campanula, thistle, cornflower and daisy, and inhabited by hybrid wild man and by wild man (?) holding leaf from book (?) with right paw and spectacles (very faint) with raised left paw (Scene, Burlesque: Reading).