Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1494
MS M.1078 fol. 150v

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Job: seated among Ashes -- Job, nimbed, with nude body covered in sores, sits on ash heap with arms crossed on his breast and with scroll in his lap inscribed GOD GAF GOD NAM. Figure in initial S composed of vinescroll.
Margins with monochromatic scattered flowers, including daisy and thistle.