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images of Christ's nativity from manuscripts

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MS Gen 1111 (volume 1)

Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea Flanders: c.1405-1410

Nativity

 


MS Hunter 25

Breviary Ghent: 1494

Annunciation & Nativity by the Master of the first prayer book of Maximilian

 


MS Hunter 202

Jerome Epistolae N. East Italy, 2nd half of the fifteenth century

Inhabited initial "O" by the Italian artist known as the Master of the Brussels initials, depicting the Nativity

 


MS Hunter 465

Eustachius Bonaventura Stimulus amoris French translation by Jean Charler de Gerson Flanders: 3rd quarter of fifteenth century

Annunciation

 


MS Euing 3

Book of Hours Ghent [?]: c. 1460

Nativity (Hour of Prime)

 


MS Euing 4

Book of Hours French Flanders, use of St. Omer: c. 1460

Nativity (Hour of Prime) & Flight into Egypt (Hour of Vespers)

 


MS Hunter 60

Miroir de l'humaine salvation Bruges 1455 Attributed to William Vrelant

Adoration of the Magi in colour with three prefigurations in grisaille: the star in the East, David's three heroes and Solomon's throne.