Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, ca. 1480
MS M.6 fol. 48r

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Christ: Presentation -- Joseph the Carpenter, wearing hat, and Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, holding partially draped Christ Child, stand and flank draped hexagonal altar beneath conical altar canopy. Behind altar stands Simeon of Jerusalem, wearing conical hat and vestments, with left hand raised. Around Simeon stand four men, including three wearing hats. Behind Virgin Mary stand Prophetess Anna, holding candle in right hand and basket of doves in left hand, and another woman, both wearing headdresses. Scene in rib-vaulted apse of Gothic church, with colonnettes and triforium.
Lower margin decorated with scattered flowers, including viola and strawberry.