225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016. Just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station
Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 123v
Florentius, nimbed, tonsured, wearing black habit, stands holding book with one strap, with both hands. He is in windowed room, before three tapestries, one inscribed SANCTE FLORENTIUS CONFESSOR CHRISTI INTERCEDE PRO NOBIS AD DOMINUM DEUM NOSTRUM. ISTE CONFESSOR DOMINI SACRATUS FESTA.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament including grapevine, and inhabited by rabbit. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).
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