Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS M.197 fol. 128v

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Miniature:
Catherine of Alexandria, nimbed and crowned, holding sword with right hand and open book with left hand, standing in landscape.
Margin, lower:
Hybrid animal emerging from one of three trees in landscape.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament.