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Manuscript miniature with the Annunciation to the Shepherds

Glencairn Museum

Glencairn Museum
Bryn Athyn, United States

This illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, from a 15th-century French Book of Hours, depicts the biblical episode of the Annunciation to the Shepherds. The miniature illustrates the portion of the Nativity narrative in which an angel appears to a group of shepherds, who are keeping watch over their flock by night (Luke 2:8-20). The text (in Latin) on this leaf is the opening of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin: "Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O LORD" (Psalm 70).

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  • Title: Manuscript miniature with the Annunciation to the Shepherds
  • Location Created: France, Paris
  • Physical Dimensions: H: 5 3/4" W: 5 5/8"
  • Medium: Vellum
  • Date: ca. 1410-20
  • Collection: Medieval
  • Accession Number: 07.MS.636
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