Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Bruges or Valenciennes, ca. 1470
MS M.285 fol. 155r

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Christ: Entombment -- Two nimbed, veiled women, possibly Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen, and Joseph of Arimathea (?), nimbed, wearing hat, lower body of Christ, with crossed rays as nimbus, in sarcophagus lined with shroud. Evangelist John (?), nimbed, and nimbed man, wearing hat, kneeling with joined hands, flank the sarcophagus.