Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, 1531
MS M.451 fol. 120v

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Francis of Assisi: receiving Stigmata -- Francis, nimbed, tonsured, wearing Franciscan habit, kneels beside sleeping (?) Franciscan monk, and receives stigmata from seraph, nimbed, on cross, in mandorla, emanating rays. Scene in landscape with trees and distant town and mountains.