Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1475-1500
M.256 fol. 223v

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Apostle Bartholomew, nimbed, holding book with right hand and knife with left hand, standing in landscape with building in background, within initial C decorated with foliate ornament.
Margins decorated with blocks of floreate ornament on gold ground, inhabited by putto climbing among vines.