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Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 14r

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Christ: bearing Cross -- Christ, rays as nimbus, wearing crown of thorns, carries tau cross on left shoulder; Simon of Cyrene, wearing hat carries foot of cross with right hand. Between them, in front of cross, soldier, wearing sword at waist, holds scourge in raised right hand. Behind cross are Virgin Mary, wearing wimpled veil, with hands joined, Evangelist John (?), two soldiers, horseman, and four men, some carrying weapons, including spear, broad ax, and halberd.
Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).



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