Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1440
MS W.3 fol. 173v

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Adrian of Nicomedia, rays as nimbus, wearing hat and fur-lined tunic, holding raised sword with right hand, and anvil with hammer with left hand, stands on lion in landscape with background of red with gold diaper. Above Adrian, half figure of God, amid rays, wearing triple crowned papal tiara, extending right hand in blessing and holding globe with left hand appears in arc of Heaven.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by cock (rooster).