Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, ca. 1440
MS M.157 fol. 199v

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Apollonia of Alexandria: Scene, Torture -- Apollonia of Alexandria, nimbed, reclines on ground, as tormentor, wearing hat, uses pincers to remove her teeth. Scene in front of wall, from behind which Philip I of Rome, wearing crown, and man, wearing hat, watch.
Margins decorated with floreate border.