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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. 127v
Description:
Within a landscape, a nimbed Evangelist Luke holds a closed book in his right hand and glances upward and to the right. A nimbed ox stands behind him. The scene is framed by a decorative border.
Credits:
Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria.