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Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)
Ghent, Belgium
ca. 1515
172 x 125 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910
MS M.399, fol. 177r
Description:
The initial C beginning the Compline of the Hours of the Virgin encloses a strawberry and is decorated with foliate ornament.
The border framing the text is decorated with flowers and pearls within panels of a diamond pattern. In the right border, a pendant inscribed IHS hangs within one panel. A jeweled pendant hangs in a panel in the lower border.
Credits:
Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria.