Mary Magdalen wears a turban, and the keeper on the right has a strange peaked cap with Hebrew letters on it.

Hebrew scholars have done their best to read the inscriptions on these clothes, but we must infer that Hubert only copied the letters without knowing what they meant, since it has not been possible to make any sense of them.
In the foreground are masses of flowers most carefully painted, and so accurately drawn that botanists have been able to identify them all; several do not grow in the north of Europe.

The town at the back is something like Jerusalem as it looked in Hubert van Eyck's own day.
A few of the buildings can be identified still, and a general view of Jerusalem taken in 1486, sixty years after the death of Hubert, bears some resemblance to the town in this picture.

The city is painted in miniature, much as it would look if you saw it from near at hand.
Every tower, house, and window is there.

You can even count the battlements.