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.

606. MS M.399, fol. 306v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 306v

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

Francis of Assisi: receiving stigmata—A seraph appearing in an aureole sends rays of light toward a nimbed and tonsured Francis of Assisi wearing a habit. He raises both arms and his hands display stigmata. Beside him, Leo of Assisi sleeps with his covered head on his arms, which are resting on a rock. In the background is a landscape with figures walking beside a river, one mounted and two on foot.
The scene is framed by a decorated border inscribed with display script ORA PRO NOBIS BEATE SAI (abbreviation?).