Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, ca. 1480
MS M.6 fol. 142r

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Catherine of Alexandria: Scene, Torture -- Catherine, nimbed, crowned, kneels with joined hands raised before broken-apart wheel on stand from which fly pieces of the wheel. Behind Catherine stands man, being struck with pieces of the wheel and possibly bleeding from wounds (blood resembles flames).
Right margin has floreate ornament.