Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Bourges, ca. 1480
MS M.330 fol. 25v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, grasps wrists of Elizabeth, veiled with wimple (?), placing right hand on Mary’s swollen abdomen. Figures in landscape with hills and castle in background. Text below miniature is beginning of Hours of the Virgin, Lauds.