Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, Amiens, between 1280 and 1299
MS M.729 fol. 232v

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Scene, Liturgical: Prayer -- Comtesse de la Table, wearing snood, headdress, and mantle with the Coeuvres arms (or fretty gules charged with lions passant), kneels on carpet. She raises her joined hands in prayer, beside inscribed book on prie-dieu and dog, before draped altar on which is statue of veiled, crowned, nimbed Virgin Mary seated on throne (?), holding Christ Child, cross-nimbed, with His right hand raised in blessing, and object in His left hand, seated on her right knee.
Scene with patterned background within Gothic architectural frame decorated with cusps of ball terminals, six heraldic shields, including Coeuvres (four), Count of Soissons (one) and Count of Grandpré (one), in medallions, and two hybrid animals, and inhabited by four birds, including a parrot, two owls, squirrel, dog, two hybrid men, and dog pursuing rabbit.