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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (3 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (3 of 3 Excised Leaves)

c. 1510

ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Part of a book of hours, this miniature opens the prayers to be recited at sext, or the sixth hour of the day.

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