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Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 126v

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Blaisius of Sebaste, nimbed, wearing bishop's miter and vestments holds wool-comb in right hand. George of Cappadocia, nimbed, wearing armor, holding in right hand, spear with banner bearing his arms (argent, a cross gules). Denis of Paris, nimbed, bleeding from top of head, wearing cope, carries crown of head with miter in left hand. Christopher of Lycia, nimbed, holding branch as staff in right hand, carries on his left shoulder, Christ Child, cross nimbed, raising right hand in blessing, holding cross surmounted globe in extended left hand. Giles of Provence, nimbed and tonsured, wearing habit, holds abbot's crozier with left hand and touches head of deer pierced in side by arrow.
Figures stand in windowed room before three tapestries, the center one inscribed [...] BLASU ET EGID(IUS) SANCTORUM MARTURUM DYONISU GEORGU CHRISTOPHOR(U)
Margins decorated with floreate ornament, inhabited by rabbit. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).



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