Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 207r

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Within initial S, Apollonia of Alexandria, nimbed, wearing turban-like headdress, with right hand holding pincers with tooth, standing in landscape before city buildings. Margins decorated with border of strewn flowers including pea and strawberry. Miniature at beginning of prayer to Appollonia of Alexandria.