Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1475-1500
M.256 fol. 104v

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Saint, nimbed, possibly apostle Philip or Simon, holding book with right hand and cross with left hand.
Figure in landscape within initial D decorated with foliate ornament.
Margins decorated with blocks of floreate ornament on gold ground, inhabited by guinea fowl in lower margin.