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.

551. MS M.399, fol. 277v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 277v

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

A nimbed Apostle Andrew, glancing upward, holds a saltire cross. He is within a landscape in which a man walks on a path following a river. A building is visible on the other side of the river.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with flowers.