Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, Lyons, 1484
MS M.1162. Fol. 177v

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Claudius of Besançon, as half-figure, wearing bishop's miter, gloves and vestments, holds archiepiscopal cross of double traverse in left hand and with right hand raised in blessing (?), against red background.
Decorated initial O in upper right corner of miniature.
Margin left decorated with block border of floreate and foliate ornament, including peapods and cornflowers.
Illustration for Suffrage to Claudius of Besançon.