Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter
France, Paris, between 1228-1247
MS M.283 fol. 10v

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Magi: Adoration -- Middle-aged magus, crowned, raising right hand, and youngest magus, crowned, pointing upward with right hand, turning to face first magus, hold vessels and stand behind eldest magus, kneeling on knee with crown placed on bent knee. He raises cover of vessel containing gold coins, offering it to Christ Child, cross-nimbed, raising right hand in blessing and grasping coin with left hand. He sits on lap of Virgin Mary, decorated nimbus, crowned, veiled, seated on bench.
Scene occurs in mandorla set in diapered background enclosed in decorated frame.