Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1500
MS M.156 fol. 37r

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Miniature:
Innocents: Massacre -- In center two executioners, wearing hats, one holding sword, the other holding saber, each reach toward infant held by mother. One mother wearing turban type of headdress, turns away and has another child next to her. The other mother, wearing wimpled veil, crouches, holding infant. Buildings, one half-timbered in background. Framed initial D in upper right corner.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament, including viola, rose, and daisy, and inhabited by robin.