Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1500-1515
M.58 fol. 9r

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Evangelist Mark, nimbed, looking upward, raising pen in right hand, resting left hand on open book on right knee. Evangelist symbol (lion), nimbed, at left.
Margins decorated with bands of floreate ornament including columbine and inhabited by moth and bird, possibly pigeon.