St. James the Minor
ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 224–225
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963
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James the Minor (so-called because there were two apostles named James) holds a rosary and the cudgel with which he was martyred. The drinking scene in the margin provides an antithesis to James, who was famous for his abstinence.