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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. 127v
Description:
Lawrence of Rome, nimbed and tonsured and holding a book in his right hand and a gridiron in his left hand, stands beneath an arch between two columns in a windowed room. Text is Suffrage.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament, including a strawberry, inhabited by a rabbit. The heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent) is in the lower margin. Text, Suffrages