Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1515
MS M.399 fol.332v

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Apollonia of Alexandria, nimbed, wearing fillet, holds pincers in right hand and open book in left hand. She stands within landscape with horseman and another figure on road.
Scene framed by border decorated with floreate ornament, including strawberry, rose, viola, and columbine, and inhabited by butterflies and hybrid man, with snail's body, holding arrow in right hand.