Description: In the top vignette, a seated monk with one hand up to his ear listens to a woman seated beside him. In the lower vignette, a woman kneels before the Virgin and Child with hands clasped together.
vignettes
Flanders or Upper Rhineland
This image belongs to a set of 5 exempla.
Rothschild Canticles (f. 142r): Swearing at confession; Woman kneeling in supplication to Virgin and Child
Collection of William Alexander Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.
Reverend Walter Sneyd, gift from Douglas in 1856.
Sotheby, sold 16 December 1903, no.513 Bernard Quaritch, London.
Collection of Edmond de Rothschild, MS 98, sold 24 June 1968 no.1 in Paris, Palais Galliéra.
Acquired from H.P. Kraus in 1968 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
