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.

065. MS M.399, fol. 33r

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 33r

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

Christ: Entombment—Several figures, including the veiled Virgin Mary, Holy Women, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Evangelist John, lower the shrouded body of Christ into a sarcophagus.
The miniature and text are framed by a border inscribed in decorative script AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMI(NUS) TECOM (sic) B(ENEDICTA IN MULIERBUS?).