Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1515
MS M.399 fol.287v

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Lawrence of Rome, nimbed, tonsured, wearing deacon's vestments, stands in front of patterned hanging, within church with font and altar. He holds gridiron in right hand and open book in left hand.
Scene framed by border with column around which scroll is draped. Scroll is inscribed but letters disappear in folds: BEATUS LAVRE(...) VM (...)RATICVLA SVI (...)