Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.1170. Fol. 119r

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Barbara of Nicomedia, nimbed, crowned, seated, with both hands on open book with pseduo-inscriptions in lap; in walled garden with crenellated tower partly visible at right.
Miniature for beginning of Suffrage to Barbara of Nicomedia.
Margins inhabited by moth and scattered with naturalistic flowers including rose, forget-me-not, viola and dianthus; against gold background.