Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1470
M.59 fol. 79v

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Christ: Presentation -- Woman, wearing hat, and man, wearing hat, stand behind Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, holding over draped altar nude Christ Child, cross nimbed, hands extended. At right is Simeon, wearing hat, with hands extended. Man and woman, with heads covered, stand at left behind two columns. Figures in vaulted room with five windows.
Margin decorated with floreate border.