Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 132v

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Caesarius, nimbed, holding book, wearing deacon's vestments, stands in windowed room before tapestry inscribed SANCTE CESAR MARTIR CHRISTI INTERCEDE PRO NOBIS AD DOMINICUM NOSTRI IHESUM CHRISTUM DIGNI EFFICIAMUR PROMISSIONIBUS CHRISTI OREMUS.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules).