Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1430-1435
MS M.359 fol. 171r

See more information »

Job: Visit of Brethren -- Job, wearing short loin cloth, sits on dung heap. Beside the dung heap stand woman, wearing butterfly headdress, man, wearing hat, and two other men, possibly Job's wife and friends. Scene in landscape with trees and sky. Scene in medallion in right margin.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux, foliate, and vinescroll ornament.