Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1515
MS M.399 fol.116v

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Within room furnished with bookcases, Evangelist Matthew, nimbed, wearing headgear, seated at writing desk with inkpot and other implements, writes in book. Angel, nimbed, kneels behind him.
Scene framed by border decorated with two statues of male figures within illusionistic architectural niches in left border. GLORIA TIBI DO(MINO) is inscribed in lower border.