Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, probably Milan, ca. 1470
MS M.454 fol. 145r

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Reliquary or monstrance, in which cross inscribed wafer (host) is visible in initial C.
Bust of woman, looking up toward half figure of female saint (?), possibly nimbed, touching head of first woman with right hand and holding palm with left hand in initial O inscribed CONSTANTIA CONSTIA.