Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 82r

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Christ, with crossed nimbus, stands with right hand raised in blessing. Figure in decorated initial G.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament, inhabited by bird. In lower margin is nude man, seated on ground, holding string (leash), tied around neck of squirrel, seated before squirrel house.