Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, possibly Toulouse, ca. 1490
M.463 fol. 61r

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Creation Scene -- God, rays as nimbus, wearing triple-crown tiara, raisies right hand in gesture of blessing. He is in landscape setting.
Margin is decorated with foliate border, including roses and strawberries, inhabited by fantastic birds, putto, and woman, beneath tent, seated on ground with man, reclining, with his head resting in her lap.
In top margin is inscription LXII