Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Prayer book
France, Paris, ca. 1490
MS H.3 fol. 164r

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Stephen Protomartyr: Stoning -- Stephen, nimbed, wearing deacon's vestments and maniple on right arm. He kneels with joined hands, looking upward with stone on his head. He is flanked by two torturers, each raising stone with right hands and with left hands grasping cloth or apron enclosing stones. Man, possibly Saul of Tarsus, sits on stone in background.
Scene in landscape with bushes and trees, and with city in background.