Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 138v

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Fiacrius of Meaux, nimbed, tonsured, wearing black and white habit, holding spade in right hand and closed book in left hand stands in windowed room before three tapestries, one with inscription SANCTE FIACRI ORA PRO NOBIS ISTE CONFESSOR DOMINI SACRATUS FESTA PLEBS CUIUS CELEBRANT PER ORBEM HODIE LETUS MERUIT SECRETA SCANDERE CELI.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In lower margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).