Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 128v

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Martha of Bethany, nimbed, holds palm in right hand. Margaret of Antioch, nimbed, holds palm in right hand, and cross, and tether attached to dragon with left hand. Catherine of Alexandria, nimbed and crowned, holds palm in right hand, and sword in left hand, her right foot on broken wheel on floor. Barbara of Nicomedia, nimbed, holds tower in right hand and palm in left hand. Christina of Bolsena, nimbed, holds lamb (?) in basket (?) with both hands, the palm in left hand. Figures stand in windowed room before three tapestries, the center one inscribed SANCTUM VIRGINUM MARTYRUM KATHERINE MARGARETE MARTHE CHRISTIANE ET BARBARE.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).