Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 135v

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Franciscan monk, tonsured, with joined hands, kneels on ground before James of the Marches, rays as nimbus, Franciscan, tonsured, holding reliquary containing blood of Christ in right hand and closed book in left hand. Figures in landscape with rocks, trees, and city or castle in background.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shields of members of Bosredont family: Guillaume (quarterly, vair and gules), Iehan (quarterly, 1 and 4 vair; 2 gules a lion rampant ; 3 gules), George (quarterly, 1 and 4 vair; 2 gules a cross patty argent; 3 gules), Pierre (quarterly, 1 and 4 vair; 2 gules a label 3 points azure; 3 gules), Antoine (quarterly, vair and gules), Pierre (quarterly, vair and gules).