Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Brussels, ca. 1540
MS M.696 fol. 256v

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Christ, in mandorla, standing on serpent, holding cross-surmounted globe in left hand, raises right hand in blessing to Eleanor of Habsburg, veiled, as widow, kneeling with joined hands raised before draped prie-dieu with open book with pseudo inscription and escutcheon with her arms, surmounted by a crown. Small dog beside her, and canopy behind her.
Text and miniature enclosed in classicizing architectural frame.