Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1440
MS W.3 fol. 202v

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Gertrude of Nivelles as abbess, rays as nimbus, wearing habit of nun (with veil and wimple), holding book with draped left hand and crozier with sudarium with right hand, looks down toward three mice, one with front feet on her mantle. She stands on tile floor surrounded by brick or stone wall, with diapered background.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by bird.