Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Loire, ca. 1475
MS G.1.I fol. 19r

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Evangelist Mark, wearing cap, is seated before cloth of honor on bench looking toward book held with both hands on desk before him. Evangelist symbol, (lion) sits in front of the desk. In background is trestle table on which are three books. Scene is flanked by two columns each surmounted by hybrid bird.
Scene in room with windows with interior shutters.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including rose, and inhabited by two doves (?), fly and hybrid man. In right margin, initials I and B bound together with knotted cord. In lower margin scroll inscribed with ET NON AVTRE.