Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 30r

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Christ: Nativity -- Virgin Mary and Joseph the Carpenter, both with rays as nimbus, both kneel with joined hands flanking nude infant Christ Child, emanating rays, laying on ground on Mary's mantle. In background is stone barn with thatched roof, with man (?) and ass in arched window. Scene in decorated initial G.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament.