Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1494
MS M.1078 fol. 26r

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Christ: among Doctors -- Christ, as youth, with rays as nimbus, sits on raised dais before four doctors, wearing hats, including two seated on benches. Open book with pseudo-inscription on floor. Witnessing scene are Virgin Mary, veiled, with rays as nimbus, and Joseph the Carpenter, wearing hat.
Margins with vinescroll, inhabited by bird.