Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
Belgium, Bruges, 1525-1530
MS M.1175. Fol. 175r

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Miniature, column:
1) John Baptist, nimbed, wearing garment of skins and partly draped in mantle, with left hand holding open book with pseudo-insciptions and with right hand raised to indicate recumbent Lamb of God on grassy mound; in hilly landscape with trees.
Miniature, vignette, margins:
2) John Baptist: preaching -- John Baptist, nimbed, wearing garment of skins and partly draped in mantle, standing behind fence-like structure, with left hand lowered to recumbent Lamb of God, all before group of five men and women, wearing headgears, some sitting on chairs or reclining in grass.