Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Brussels, ca. 1540
MS M.696 fol. 63r

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Barbara of Nicomedia, wearing jewelled headress and veil and ermine-lined mantle, as half figure holding open book with pseudo-inscription in right hand and martyr's palm in left hand. Tower and distant landscape with figures in background.
Text and miniature enclosed in classicizing architectural frame. In lower margin is two-headed imperial eagle, with wings inscribed DIEV EN AIIDE.