Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)
- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)
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Description:
6-line historiated initial 'D' with a female patron praying, and holding a book under her arm, in front of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. The border is decorated with a butterfly, a bird, a grotesque in the form of a snail with a human head and fore legs, strawberries, periwinkles, blue thistles and cranberries.
Context: Prayers: The Fifteen Joys of the Virgin: Doulce dame de misericorde mere
- Date range: [ca. 1440-1460]
- Date: 1450
- Collection: Medieval Manuscripts
- Physical Identifier: BC MS 5/21
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/10742
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