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Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)
  • 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
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 17 Mar 2015 19:34
  • Last Modified: 18 Apr 2018 14:15