Nativity from a Book of Hours (use of Rouen)

Parchment folio from a Book of Hours written and illuminated between 1485 and 1490 in the Rouen workshop of the Master of the Echevinage, in collaboration with artist workshops in Tours. This illumination is attributed to the Master of Jean Charpentier. In a stable-like interior with stone walls and wooden roof, a haloed Mary knees before the infant Jesus, Joseph knees behind her. An ox and ass si…