Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1494
MS M.1078 fol. 21v

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Christ: Presentation -- Prophetess Anna, wearing turban, holding lighted candle, and Joseph the Carpenter, holding basket with doves, stand with Virgin Mary, with rays as nimbus, holding nude infant Christ Child, with crossed rayed nimbus. Kneeling before the Christ Child is Simeon of Jerusalem, with joined hands. Scene in temple with draped altar with candle, all in decorated initial G.
Margins with vinescroll, inhabited by two birds and by fantastic animal.