Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Loire, ca. 1475
MS G.1.I fol. 14r

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Evangelist Matthew, nimbed, is seated on bench at desk writing with right hand in open book. He looks toward angel standing opposite the desk, holding open book face out with both hands. Figures are below two poly-lobed arches with pediments on which stand statues of Moses holding tables of law, flanked by two angels (?) blowing horns.
Scene in room with window and doorway to exterior.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including rose, and inhabited by snail and three birds.