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MS M.399, fol. 117r

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

Ghent, Belgium
ca. 1515
172 x 125 mm

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

MS M.399, fol. 117r
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The initial I beginning the Gospel Sequence of Matthew is decorated with foliate ornament.
The border around the text is decorated with grapevine.

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Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria.