Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 6r

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Top margin with boar.
Margins with five vignettes in architectural framework (described top to bottom):
1) Boniface of Mainz, wearing bishop's miter and vestments, sits with right hand raised and holds crozier in left hand.
2) Edmund of Canterbury: Scene, Translation of Relics -- Two men carry architectural reliquary on poles on their shoulders. Monks, wearing habits, witness scene.
3) Apostle Barnabas, holding open book with pseudo-inscription, stands in landscape.
4) Blasius of Sebaste (?), wearing bishop's miter and vestments, stands holding wool comb in right hand and crozier in left hand.
5) Month, Occupation: June -- Man, wearing hat, mows field.