St. Scholastica
ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 312–313
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963
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Scholastica, twin sister to St. Benedict, wears the habit of a Benedictine abbess and holds a book and a crozier. Her usual attribute, a dove, the form in which she ascended to heaven, is lacking here, while the border contains an antithetical scene of two boys hoping to snare a bird.