Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1515
MS M.399 fol.312v

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Bernadinus of Siena, nimbed, tonsured, wearing Franciscan habit, holds fiery disk inscribed IHS in right hand. He stands in front of patterned hanging with pseudo-inscriptions within landscape.
Scene framed by border decorated with floreate ornament, including rose and viola, and inhabited by butterfly, snail, and caterpillar.