Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 11r

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Top margin with boar (emblem of Henry VII ?).
Margins with five vignettes in architectural framework (described top to bottom):
1) Group of saints, including John Baptist, wearing garment of skins and holding lamb in left hand; mitered bishop, holding cross-staff in left hand; and apostle Peter, possibly tonsured.
2) Purgatory -- Two angels lift nude souls from Purgatory, occupied by numerous souls.
3) Leonard of Limoges, wearing habit and hat, possibly crown or miter, stands holding book in right hand and crozier in left hand.
4) Martin of Tours: dividing Cloak -- Martin, wearing cap, seated astride horse with cloak draped across his lap, draws sword from sheath. On ground sits (?) beggar, with hands raised.
5) Month, Occupation: November -- Man, wearing hat, kneels on body of pig, bleeding from neck into handled pan held by woman, wearing kerchief.