Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1480
MS M.253 fol. 129v

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Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, wearing monk's habit, holding open book with pseudo-inscription in right hand and staff in left hand, stands beside pig and small fire.
Margins with floreate ornament. In lower margin is escutcheon with arms of Jerusalem (argent a cross potent between four crosslets or), surmounted by a crown.