Virgin Mary: Assumption

Title: Virgin Mary: Assumption; Link to item resource from The Morgan.
Alternative Title: Book of hours (Ms. Pierpont Morgan Library. M.1162 087v)
Creator: Guillaume Lambert, also noted as Guillaume Lambert de Lyon
Subject: Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Catholic Church, prayers and devotions.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Books of hours, Lyons, France.
Language: Latin
Date: 1484
Description: Virgin Mary, crowned, with joined hands raised, stands within rayed mandorla shaped and supported by 26 angels. Miniature within architectural frame, enclosing two standing figures, possibly prophets, in architectural niches. Bottom of frame is inscribed with incipit of CONV(ER)TE NOS D(EV)S SALVTARIS N(OSTE)R ET AV(ER)TE from Psalm 085:04
Medium: Ink on vellum.
Extent: Unknown.
Rights Holder: The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
Provenance: Melvin R. Seiden Collection, 2007.