Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Brussels, ca. 1540
MS M.696 fol. 279v

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Charlemagne, wearing cross-surmounted imperial crown, armor, and ermine-lined mantle, stands holding raised sword in right hand and cross-surmounted tripartite globe in left hand. Behind him is low wall, with distant landscape and Dutch-style building beyond.
Text and miniature enclosed in classicizing architectural frame.