Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 15v

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Virgin Mary: Annunciation -- Archangel Gabriel, holding scepter and scroll inscribed AVE GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM BENEDICTA in right hand, pointing upward with left hand, kneels on floor before Virgin Mary, with rays as nimbus, kneeling, turning from draped prie-dieu with open book with pseudo-inscription. Above her, dove of Holy Ghost descends on rays. Behind her, two angels, with joined hands raised, emerge from behind canopy. Scene set in Gothic interior, with carved arcade and colulmn with statues of two helmeted soldiers.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament, inhabited by peacock.