Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Amiens, ca. 1480
MS M.198 fol. 110r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, tempted by Demons -- Anthony Abbot, nimbed, wearing monk's habit with tau cross on right shoulder, holding bell in right hand and open book pseudo-inscription in his lap, raises left hand toward devil, in guise of woman, horned, wearing hennin and ermine-lined gown, extending vessel held in right hand toward Anthony. Scene in landscape with trees.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament, in zig zag pattern, inhabited by moth.