Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, probably Brussels, 1533
MS M.491 fol. 83v

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Within room, Evangelist Mark, seated on canopied chair decorated with patterned hanging, writes with pen held in right hand on scroll draped over lectern. Winged lion lies on ground beside him.
Miniature and text framed by architectural border.
Initial I decorated with foliate ornament begins Gospel Sequence of Mark.