Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 130v

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Job: Reply I to Zophar -- Job (?), wearing turban-like hat, stands with scroll inscribed QUARE FACIA[M] TUAM ABSCONDIS. Before him are three figures, including youth, wearing hat, holding scroll inscribed CO[N]TRA FOLIU[M] Q[OU]D RAP[ITU]R O[STE]NDIS POTE[N]CIA[M] TUA ET STIPULA[R] SICCA[M] PERSEQUERIS; man, wearing drawers, with leg in stocks, with scroll inscribed POSUISTI IN NERVO PEDUM MEUM; and worm-eaten corpse, laying on ground, with scroll inscribed Q[UAS]I PUTREDO [CON]SUME[N]D[US] SU[M] ET Q[UAS]I VESTIME[N]TU[M] QUOD COMEDITUR A TINEA. Above all is arc of heaven, emanating rays, enclosing Christ, with crossed rays as nimbus, with head on draped left hand (?). Scene in landscape with distant castle on hilltop.
Floreate margins, with escutcheon with arms of King of England, surmounted by a crown, in left margin and with lower margin inhabited by hawk pursuing bird.