Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Prayer book
France, Paris, ca. 1490
MS H.3 fol. 81v

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John Baptist: Birth -- Elizabeth, nimbed and veiled with wimple, head on pillow, reclines on draped bed with canopy. Zacharias, wearing hat is seated on chair, indicating with right hand open book held with left hand. Midwife, wearing hat and wimple, holds nude John Baptist, nimbed, with draped hands before Zacharias.
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