Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, possibly Toulouse, ca. 1490
M.463 fol. 54r

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Christ: of Sorrows -- Christ, as half-figure, wearing crown of thorns, nude to waist, bleeding from wounds in side and hands, seated in vaulted room decorated with curtain. Beside him are three nails and coins. Three dice are on his lap.
Margin is decorated with foliate border, with seven vignettes. In uppermost vignette is profile head of man, wearing hat.
In top vignette in right margin is half figure of Apostle Peter (?), nimbed, holding open book in right hand. In vignette below is half figure of Apostle Paul, nimbed, holding sword in right hand. Below him is vignette with half-figure of Evangelist John, nimbed, raising right hand in gesture of blessing over goblet held in left hand.