Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps in Berry, ca. 1510
MS M.250 fol. 143v

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Mary Magdalen: Scene, Soul borne to Heaven -- Mary Magdalen, with joined hands raised, her body clothed with her hair, is flanked by and supported above earth by four angels.
Margins decorated with border of sculptural and foliate ornament including foliate garland in upper margin that drapes down each side, and two putti holding spears shields, standing in lower margin.