Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1440
MS M.19 fol. 16r

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Female donor, wearing two-peaked headdress and ermine-lined mantle, kneels with joined hands raised before draped prie-dieu with open book with pseudo inscription and before Apostle Andrew, nimbed, standing behind and holding saltire cross, with one hand draped. Background with chequered pattern.
Margins decorated with ivy-rinceaux floreate ornament.