Adoration of the Magi Although the precise moment in the liturgy that this miniature begins remains to be identified, it was certainly for a chant for the feast of the Epiphany. The iconography of the black magus was fairly common from the fifteenth century. The motif probably originated in Germany around the middle of the fourteenth century and eventually appeared with some frequency in Flanders by the fifteenth... This image shows the reverse of a cutting with a miniature from a choir book. Monastic, fraternal, and lay worshipers receiving a divine blessing The precise moment in the liturgy that this miniature begins remains to be identified.
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