Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps in Berry, ca. 1510
MS M.250 fol. 98v

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Pentecost -- Evangelist John, nimbed, draped hands crossed on breast, and Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, with joined hands, sit together on throne. They are flanked by two groups of Apostles, seated on benches, some with hands joined, looking up toward dove of Holy Ghost hovering above amid tongues of flame filling the upper half of the room. Book is on tile floor in foreground.
Scene in barrel vaulted room decorated with architectural ornament. Miniature enclosed in architectural frame surmounted by peaked roof on which are two putti, and in the spandrel of which is head or mask flanked by two wings.