Saint Margaret Bodleian Book of Hours 2

Saint Margaret Bodleian Book of Hours 2

"Virgin and Child enthroned, with owners and their patron saints, preceding Prayer to St. John the Baptist. The man is presented to the Virgin and Child by St. John the Baptist who holds a book with Agnus Dei sitting on top of its cover; the woman in a black cap is presented by St. Margaret of Antioch who is accompanied by her dragon. Arms of owners are presented by the putti in the lower part of the architectural frame: 'gules three roses argent and the same impaling azure three six pointed stars or in chief a cross formy or'. Putti with coral beads at top, inset marble shafts in columns. Hilly landscape seen through the open colonade.
Miniatures painted in style of Robert Boyvin." ~Artstor

Unknown

16th century, first quarter

ARTSTOR: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/BODLEIAN_10310775626

saints; Christianity

Copyright Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

200 x 130 mm

Illuminated Manuscript; Book of Hours

MS. Douce 72