Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.1170. Fol. 116v

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1) Bust of Anthony Abbot the Great, bearded, nimbus as rays, holding open book with pseudo-inscriptions (partly visible); against patterned background.
Miniature for beginning of Suffrage to Anthony Abbot the Great.
2) Three-quarter figure of Martin of Tours, wearing miter and bishop's vestments, with left hand holding crozier and with right hand lowering wafer toward bust of kneeling man in foreground (Scene, Liturgical: Celebration of Communion); both in room with tiled floor.
Miniature for beginning of Suffrage to Martin of Tours.