Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, ca. 1511
MS M. 8 fol. 253r

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Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, with joined hands raised, as three-quarter figure standing in landscape. Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including bladder cherry, cornflower, daisy and viola, and inhabited by seated wild man, and snail. Text is Magnificat for Vespers on Sunday .