Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1490
MS M.380 fol. 100v

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Apostle James Major, nimbed, half-figure, with staff against shoulder, wearing pilgrim's hat with shell. He holds open book in both hands. Figure within miniature beside decorated initial E.
Stephen Protomartyr, nimbed, tonsured, half-figure, wearing deacon's vestments, stone on head, joined hands raised. Figure within decorated initial D.
Foliate border decorated with flowers in left margin.