Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.1170. Fol. 117r

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Nicholas of Myra: Scene, Three Youths rescued from Barrel -- Three-quarter figure of Nicholas of Myra, nimbed, wearing miter with infulae and bishop's vestments, with right hand raised in blessing and with left hand holding crozier before barrel in which stand half-figures of three nude youths, bleeding from heads.
Scene in room with decorated drapery panels and tiled floor.
Miniature for beginning of Suffrage to Nicholas of Myra.
Margins inhabited by moth and scattered with naturalistic roses; against rose background.