Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 4v

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Top margin with roses.
Margins with five vignettes in architectural framework (described top to bottom):
1) Alphege of Canterbury, nimbed, wearing bishop's miter and vestments, stands with right hand raised in blessing and holds crozier in left hand.
2) Evangelist Mark, nimbed, stands holding open book with pseudo-inscription. Beside him sits lion.
3) Peter Martyr, nimbed, wearing Dominican habit, bleeding, with knife in his head, stands holding open book with pseudo-inscription.
4) Zodiac Sign: Taurus -- Bull standing in landscape.
5) George of Cappadocia: slaying Dragon -- George, nimbed, wearing armor, seated astride horse, holding cross-inscribed shield in left hand, with lance held in right hand transfixes through neck winged dragon, laying on ground. Princess of Trebizond, kneeling with joined hands raised, witnesses scene.