Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Cambrai, 1490-1500
MS M.116 fol. 154v

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Christ: Piet³l -- Virgin Mary, rays as nimbus, wearing wimpled veil, is seated on ground, supporting on her lap with her right hand, Christ on shroud, rays as cross nimbus, wearing short loincloth, wounds bleeding. Behind them is tau cross with titulus INRI. Scene in hilly landscape with city in distance.