Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, possibly Haarlem, 1496
MS S.2 fol. 78r

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Christ, wearing short loin cloth and crown of thorns, bleeding from wounds, sits before kneeling female donor, veiled, with joined hands raised. Figures in initial S, inscribed IHS XPS.
Margin with floreate ornament, inhabited by snail.