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Description: Assumption of the Virgin from the Book of Hours of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett Handschrift 78 B 12 (Photo Credit: Bildarchive Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY). "And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."
Title: 0001 Virgin in Mary and Max Prayer Book
Credit: David J. Rothenberg, "The Most Prudent Virgin and the Wise King: Isaac’s Virgo prudentissima Compositions in the Imperial Ideology of Maximilian I", The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 28, Issue 1, p.46, ISSN 0277-9269. Link2.
Author: Unspecified Ghent artist (according to Margaret Goehring, “Style or Master? A Consideration of the Master of the “Older” Prayerbook of Maximilian I” in Manuscript Studies in the Low Countries: Proceedings of the ‘Groninger Codicologendagen’ in Friesland, 2002 (Groningen: 2008), p.206. Link.
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