Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1470
MS M.30 fol. 66v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, and Elizabeth, nimbed and veiled with wimple, stand in partial embrace before entrance to building.
Scene in landscape with ship in stream, and buildings in background. Miniature in grisaille with gold and color detail.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament, in grisaille with color detail, inhabited by bird.