Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1475-1500
M.256 fol. 176r

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Saint, possibly evangelist John, nimbed, holding book with right hand, raising left hand, standing before wall, with buildings and hills in background, within within initial D decorated with floreate ornament.
Margins decorated with blocks of floreate ornament on gold ground, inhabited by stork or heron in lower margin.