Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1450
MS M.421 fol. 27v

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Adrian of Nicomedia, wearing hat decorated with jewel, cape and armor, holding sword with right hand and with left hand, anvil on which is hammer, stands on lion in loggia (?) with landscape in background.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by fantastic bird and winged fantastic animal.