Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 52r

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1) John Baptist: Beheading -- Salome, holding charger in both hands, stands beside executioner, holding head of John Baptist by hair in right hand and sword in left hand. Between them, headless bleeding body of John, with hands bound, hangs from barred window of prison.
2) Nicholas of Myra, nimbed, wearing bishop's vestments and miter with infulae, sits holding crozier in left hand and with right hand raised in blessing to three nude youths, in barrel with joined hands raised.
Floreate margins inhabited by bird in right margin and by dog in lower margin.