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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. 198r
Description:
The initial A, which begins the prayer to Five Wounds of Christ, Ave uulnus lateris nostri redemptoris, is decorated with foliate ornament.
A border decorated with flowers and pearls within panels of a diamond pattern frames the text. 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.