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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. 121v
Description:
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, Emerging from Dragon — Margaret, nimbed and holding a cross in her joined hands, emerges from the back of a dragon, her cloak still visible in the creature’s mouth. The figure is below an arch flanked by two columns in a windowed room.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament. The heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the lower margin. Text of Suffrage to Margaret of Antioch.