Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

246. MS M.399, fol. 123v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 123v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

A nimbed Evangelist Mark holds a book in his left hand and glances toward the right. A nimbed lion lies at his feet. They are within a landscape with buildings and a ship on a river. The scene is framed by a border decorated with various flowers.