Creation of Eve (fol. 121r)
- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Creation of Eve (fol. 121r)
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Description:
The historiated initial 'H' shows Eve, apaprently at the moment of her creation from Adam's side, reaching up in prayer to God, who is clad in a red poined papal tiara and red garments. Adam reclines in the foreground. The border has a putto, pea flowers, butterflies, daisies, pinks, strawberries, an iris, speedwells and acanthus leaves.
Context: Hours of All Saints: Te metten tijt: Heer du selste opdoen mijn lippen
- Date range: [ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
- Date: 1500
- Collection: Medieval Manuscripts
- Physical Identifier: BC MS 7/40
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/11216
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