St. Bartholomew
ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 228–229
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963
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Bartholomew holds his attribute, the knife with which he was flayed alive. This Suffrage begins the famous sequence of folios on which imaginatively arranged objects adorn the borders. Here are intertwined pretzels, stretched by small figures and, at the right, crackers. The relationship of these baked goods to the apostle Bartholomew is either unknown or irrelevant.