Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1475-1500
M.256 fol. 66r

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Clara of Assisi, nimbed and veiled, as nun, holding book with right hand and raising reliquary or monstrance, in which wafer (host) possibly is visible. She stands before doorway and wall; buildings and hills are in background.
All within initial D decorated with foliate ornament and fruit.
Margins decorated with blocks of floreate ornament on gold ground.