Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Ghent; England, ca. 1420
MS M.46 fol. 12v

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Margaret of Antioch: Scene, emerging from Dragon -- Margaret, nimbed, wearing fillet (?), with joined hands raised, emerges from back of single-horned dragon, with the hem of her mantle hanging from its mouth. Diapered background. Quatrefoils at corners of miniature.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux and foliate ornament.