Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, possibly Thérouanne, ca. 1300
MS M.60 fol. 51r

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Apostle, Peter: teaching -- Peter, nimbed, tonsured, stands in pulpit, raising right hand and addressing five men and woman wearing headdress, all seated. Cross-nimbed dove of Holy Ghost flies above them.
Scene with gold background, within decorated initial D embellished with filigree in spandrels. Margins decorated with foliate extensions.