Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, ca. 1460
MS M.1084 fol. 34v

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Francis of Assisi: receiving Stigmata -- Francis of Assisi, nimbed, orant, showing wounds in hands, side and left foot, kneels on right knee, looking up at Christ, amid six red wings, from whose wounds rays descend to the wounds of Francis.
Scene in landscape; gold stars in blue sky. In lower margin, cross flanked by two scrolls.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament and rinceaux.