Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Loire, ca. 1475
MS G.1.II fol. 352v

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Evangelist John, nimbed, raising right hand in blessing over chalice containing dragon or serpent, held in his left hand.
Figure standing in cloister or porch open to garden with fountain beyond which is fence. Miniature flanked by columns surmounted by statues.
Margins decorated with lattice and border of floreate ornament including rose, grapes, viola, and dianthus, and inhabited by hybrid man wearing hat, emerging from shell. In left margin, initials I and B bound together with knotted cord. In lower margin scroll inscribed with ET NON AVTRE.