Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 191r

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Within initial E, half figures of Apostle Simon, with right hand raised and with left hand holding saw facing Apostle Jude, with left hand holding carpenter’s square, both nimbed. Decorated background. Margins decorated with border of strewn violas. Initial at beginning of prayer to Apostles Simon and Jude.