Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 203v

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Barbara of Nicomedia, nimbus as rays, wearing headdress and ermine-trimmed garment, with right hand holding palm and with both hands holding open book. In fenced garden beside crenellated tower. Margins decorated with border of strewn flowers including pea, lily, and forget-me-not. Miniature facing the beginning of Memoria to Barbara of Nicomedia.