Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 121v

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Margaret of Antioch: Scene, emerging from Dragon -- Margaret, nimbed, holding cross in her joined hands, emerges from back of dragon, her cloak still visible in mouth of dragon. Figure below arch, and flanked by two columns in windowed room.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules). Text of Suffrage to Margaret of Antioch.