Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, last quarter of the 14th century
MS M.986 no. 2

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Nimbed monk, wearing Carthusian habit, kneels with joined hands raised towards Christ, cross-nimbed, as half figure, with head inclined, eyes closed, and arms crossed, bleeding from wounds (type of Man of Sorrows) in cloud-edged arc of heaven at upper right. Patterned background.