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.

333. MS M.399, fol. 167r

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 167r

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

The initial D beginning None of the Hours of the Virgin encloses a flower and is decorated with foliate ornament.
Scene, sports and games: Top-spinning―In the border framing the text, two children spin tops within an architectural setting decorated with a statue in an architectural niche.