MS G.55 fol. 23v
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Hours of Pierre de Bosredont
France, Langres
ca. 1465
157 x 113 mm
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984
MS G.55 fol. 23v
Description:
Five male saints are all nimbed. One is tonsured, one is wearing a bishop's miter and vestments and carrying a three-barred processional cross(?), and another is holding a sword.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) above a rabbit. Text, Mass of the Virgin.