Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1515
MS M.399 fol.198r

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Border, decorated with flowers and pearls within panels of diamond pattern, frames text. In right border, pendant inscribed IHS hangs within one panel. Jewelled pendant hangs in panel in lower border.
Initial A, decorated with foliate ornament, begins prayer to Five Wounds of Christ, Ave uulnus lateris nostri redemptoris.