Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 23v

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Five male saints, all nimbed, one tonsured, one wearing bishop's miter and vestments and carrying three-barred processional cross (?), and another holding sword.
Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including strawberry. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) above rabbit. Text, Mass of the Virgin.