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.

618. MS M.399, fol. 312v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 312v

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

Bernadinus of Siena, nimbed, tonsured, and wearing a Franciscan habit, holds a fiery disk inscribed IHS in right his hand. He stands within a landscape in front of a patterned hanging with pseudo-inscriptions.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with floreate ornament, including a rose and viola, and inhabited by a butterfly, a snail, and a caterpillar.