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BC MS 2/33

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

[ca. 1440-1460]

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 whit...