Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Prayer book
France, Paris, ca. 1490
MS H.3 fol. 175v

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Upper miniature:
Martialis of Limoges, nimbed, as bishop, wearing miter, gloves, and cope, raising right hand in blessing, holding crozier with left hand, standing in landscape with trees and mountains.
Lower miniature:
Mathurin of Larchant: Scene, casting out Devil -- Woman (queen), crowned, devil emerging from her mouth, with joined hands, kneels before Mathurin, nimbed and tonsured, wearing deacon's vestments, raising right hand in blessing, holding palm with left hand.
Scene in landscape with trees and hills.