Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Prayer book
France, Paris, ca. 1490
MS H.3 fol. 45r

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Crowd of nimbed saints includes: Apostle Peter holding key with right hand and open book with left hand; tonsured clerics; Sebastian of Rome, arrows piercing his breast; John Baptist, wearing animal skin with head hanging between his legs, indicating with right hand Lamb of God, crossed nimbus, holding cross-staff, resting on draped left hand of John; Christopher of Lycia, wearing knotted band around head, holding staff with right hand, and on left shoulder, Christ Child, crossed nimbus, raising right hand in blessing, holding cross-surmounted (?) globe with left hand; Evangelist John, right hand on breast, holding chalice with left hand; bishop wearing miter, holding crozier with right hand; Apostle Paul, holding sword with left hand and possibly open book with right hand; and James Major, wearing hat decorated with scallop shell, holding staff with right hand, book with left hand, wearing pilgrim scrip at waist.
Branch as line ending.