Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (fol. 227v)

Original object type: Artefact
Title: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (fol. 227v)
Description:
The miniature depicts St Anne, seated in bed under a pink and green canopy, holding the Virgin Mary (who is crowned), wrapped in white swaddling clothes. A maid stans ready to wrap the child in a white cloth, while another fills a wooden bath tub.
Context: Breviary offices: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Hec est regina virginum
Date range: [ca. 1440-1460]
Date: 1450