Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 89r

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Christ: before Pilate -- Christ, nimbed, wearing purple robe, is grasped by both hands of soldier, wearing helmet, with saber at waist. Both stand before Pilate, wearing turban-like headgear, raising right hand, sitting on canopied throne. Man, wearing pointed hat, stands beside him. Group of men stand in background. Scene in room with window through which landscape is visible.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules). Text, Seven Penitential Psalms.