Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 134r

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John Baptist, nimbed, right hand extended over lamb on ground, holding book with left hand, wearing animal skins, stands flanked by five trees in landscape with hill and two towers in background. Text of Suffrage.
Miniature on top of bracket, with unrelated inscription, ET MILITES PLECTENTES CORONAM DE SPINIS ET CAETERA.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules) and related heraldic shield, (quarterly, 1 vair, 2 and 3 gules, 4 or).