Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 119v

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Barbara of Nicomedia, nimbed, stands, holding palm in right hand and tower in left hand in windowed room, before three tapestries, one inscribed ELEGIT EAM DEUS ET PREELEGIT EAM ET HABITARE EAM FACIT IN TABERNACULO SUO SANTA BARBARA ORA PRO NOBIS.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament, inhabited by rabbit. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).