Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, Amiens, between 1280 and 1299
MS M.729 fol. 6v

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Christ: noli me tangere -- Mary Magdalen, nimbed, kneels with her joined hands raised toward Christ, cross-nimbed, wearing a mantle, showing His wounds. He raises His right hand and holds a cross-staff with trefoil terminals in His left hand. Two trees. Scene within Gothic architectural frame decorated with cusps of foliate terminals, hybrid animal with two bodies, and six heraldic shields, including Moreuil (two), Coeuvres (two) and Hangest (two), in medallions; patterned background.