Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 148v

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Within initial D, Catherine of Alexandria, rays as nimbus, crowned, holding sword with right hand and wheel in left hand stands on Maxentius, crowned, looking up at her.
Figures in landscape flanked by rocky outcrop and tree, with blue background decorated with gold scrollwork.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in left margin.
Beginning of Collect for feast of Catherine of Alexandria, 11.25.