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.

566. MS M.399, fol. 285v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 285v

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

Stephen Protomartyr: Stoning—Two men standing beside a basket of stones throw stones at a nimbed and tonsured Stephen Protomartyr, who is wearing deacon's vestments. He is kneeling with his joined hands raised. A stone is on his head, and he is bleeding. Above, God, wearing a triple-crowned tiara, appears in an arc of heaven. He sends rays of light toward Stephen. In the background, within a landscape, a man is seated on the ground mending a cloak.

The scene is framed by a decorative border.