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.

570. MS M.399, fol. 287v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 287v

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

Lawrence of Rome stands in front of a patterned hanging within a church with a font and an altar. He is nimbed and tonsured, and he wears deacon's vestments. He holds a gridiron in his right hand and an open book in his left hand.
The scene is framed by a border with a column around which a scroll is draped. The scroll is inscribed, but letters disappear in the folds: BEATUS LAVRE(...) VM (...)RATICVLA SVI (…).