MINIATURIST, English
(active 1240-1260 in Salisbury)

Missal (Sarum), folio 149v

1240-1260
Manuscript (Latin MS 24), parchment, 318 x 203 mm
John Rylands Library, Manchester

The Nativity follows the Annunciation on folio 149v, painted against a blue ground sprinkled with white dots. The Virgin reclines on a couch suckling the Child, while the ox and ass feed nearby. A woman in red adjusts the coverlet, and Joseph sits to one side beneath looped white curtains. A trefoil arch with censing angels in the spandrels frames the whole scene.