Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 122v

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Eligius of Noyon, nimbed, wearing bishop's miter and vestments, holding hammer in right hand and crozier, with sudarium, in left hand, stands in windowed room before three tapestries inscribed 1) DI CHOSSON DE NIBORO, motto of Pierre de Bosredont; 2) PIERRE DE BOSREDONT; 3) SANCTE ELIGI CONFESSOR CHRISTI INTERCEDE PRO NOBIS AD DOMINUM DEUM NOSTRUM ISTE CONFESSOR DOMINI SACRATUS FESTA PLEBS CUIUS HODIE.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).