Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 1v

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Margins with five vignettes (described top to bottom):
1) Marcellus, wearing miter and vestments, stands with right hand raised in blessing and holding crozier in left hand.
2) Vincent of Saragossa, tonsured, wearing deacon's vestments, stands holding martyr's palm in right hand and open book in left hand.
3) Apostle, Paul: Conversion -- Paul, nimbed, with right hand raised, falls from horse.
4) Agnes of Rome (?), stands holding martyr's palm in right hand.
5) Zodiac Sign: Aquarius -- Nude man pours water from jar into stream. Scene in landscape.