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.

044. MS M.461, fols. 39v–40r

Livre des merveilles du monde

ca. 1460
France, probably Angers
281 x 220 mm
MS M.461, fols. 39v–40r

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911

Hibernia

Like other places considered to be at the edge of the world, Ireland is presented as monstrous and wondrous, with warriors who drink the blood of their enemies, but also with St. Patrick leading a sacred procession toward an entrance to purgatory.