Shepherds Purse: manuscript - Stockholm-Kessel Book of Hours "Adoration"

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Despite the later Swedish associations of the Stockholm-Kessel Book of Hours, it was created in Bruges ca. 1520. The book currently exists in two separate portions, one in the Royal Library at Stockholm (MS A227) and one at the Landesbibliothek, Kassel (MS math. Et art. 50). The illustration shows a rather faint row of dancing shepherds of both sexes with a bagpiper. The form a border around a Nativity scene, so this may be considered to fall in the Adoration of the Shepherds genre. The close-up clips below are actually less distinct than the smaller version above.

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References

Testa, Judith Anne. 1992. The Stockholm-Kassel Book of Hours: A Reintegrated Manuscript from the Shop of Simon Bening. Royal Library, Stockholm. fig. 11