Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 114v

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Christ: Type, Salvator Mundi -- Christ, cross-nimbed, partially draped in mantle, stands with right hand raised in blessing and holding cross-surmounted globe in left hand. Behind Him is stone wall with arched gateway. Figure in decorated initial O.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament, inhabited by bird.