Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Chronicle of Flanders
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1490
MS M.435 fol. 355r

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Male donor, wearing cap, kneeling, holding between joined hands scroll inscribed HEER HU GHELIEUE DAT IC MACH ZIIN UAN HUUBEN SCAPEN. Above and behind him, peacock holding in beak scroll inscribed OM TE GHELIEUENE, grasping in claws escutcheon decorated with bust of woman.