Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 202r

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Within initial A, Catherine of Alexandria, nimbed, crowned, with right hand holding hilt of down-turned sword and with left hand holding open book with pseudo-inscriptions, standing in hilly landscape before spiked wheel. Margins decorated with border of strewn flowers including wild rose. Miniature at beginning of prayer to Catherine of Alexandria.