Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS M.1161. Fol. 063r

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Christ: Flight into Egypt -- Christ Child, rays as cross nimbus, with right hand holds reins of ass, sits on lap of and is supported by hands of Virgin Mary, nimbed, wearing wimpled veil, seated sideways on draped back of the ass. Joseph the Carpenter, hooded, carrying staff with purse over right shoulder and gathering garments in left hand, walks behind them, all on path, in landscape with rocks and trees in background.
Borders decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including roses, on geometric background.
Initial D of Deus decorated with roses in infilling at beginning of Sext for Hours of the Virgin.