A lavishly illuminated two-volume Latin manuscript, the Bible of Borso d’Este (MS.V.G.12) was created for Borso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, as a celebration of the splendour of his court. Executed by a team of artists led by Taddeo Crivelli and Franco dei Russi, it contains more than 1,000 miniatures, with intricate architectural borders and heraldic emblems woven into scenes from scripture and nature. This page marks the beginning of the Book of Ecclesiastes, whose central theme is that all earthly pleasures are fleeting and 'vanity of vanities'. At the bottom appears a dance scene with figures and musicians in fifteenth-century dress, evoking the worldly delights and vanities of courtly life in deliberate counterpoint to the words of the book.