Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1494
MS M.1078 fol. 57r

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Moses: Miracle of Manna -- Moses, horned, wearing hat, stands and holds rod in right hand. Before him, two men, wearing hats, and a woman, wearing headdress, gather manna falling from sky into baskets. Scene in initial H.
Margins with scattered flowers and vinescroll in lozenge pattern, inhabited by three birds and fly.