Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 127v

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Lawrence of Rome, nimbed and tonsured, holding book in right hand and gridiron in left hand stands beneath arch between two columns, in windowed room. Text is Suffrage.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament, including strawberry, and inhabited by rabbit. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent). Text, Suffrages.