Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, possibly Florence, ca. 1470-1489
MS M.1083 fol. 87r

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Legend, Three Living and Dead -- Three young men, crowned, seated astride horses, approach monk, kneeling with joined hands raised beside sarcophagus containing three crowned corpses. Cross behind. Scene in landscape, in initial D with marginal extenders.
Floreate margins.