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.

590. MS M.399, fol. 297v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 297v

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

Jerome: In penance―Under a tree, a nimbed Jerome wearing undergarments kneels before a crucifix on the base of broken a column. He holds a stone in his right hand. To the left, a cardinal's vestments are thrown over a tree stump. Behind him, a lion lies in the grass.

Jerome: Removing thorn from lion's paw―Within a landscape in the background, Jerome, wearing cardinal's vestments, removes a thorn from a lion's paw. To the left, two figures walk along a road leading to buildings.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with flowers, including viola and a strawberry and inhabited by butterflies and a bee.