Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 182v

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Apostle Peter, nimbus as rays, tonsured, wearing priest’s vestments, with right hand holding key and with left hand holding open book. In village with building surrounded by moat and gate in far background. Margins decorated with border of strewn flowers including borage and zinnia. Miniature facing the beginning of Memoria to Apostle Peter.