Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical matutinale and missal of Jean Coeur
France, Bourges, ca. 1465
G.49 fol. 159r

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John Baptist, nimbed, wearing skins, sits and holds open book with pseudo-inscription in both hands. Figure in landscape setting, within decorated initial D.
Top and bottom margins are decorated with floreate borders. In lower margin is cross-surmounted escutcheon with arms of Jean Coeur (azure, three hearts gules, on a fesse or three escallops argent), flanked by scrolls with inscription MORIR COVIE(N)T SOVE(NT) ADVIE(N)T ET NEN SOVIE(NT).