Decoration: - Full-page miniature of a kneeling Dominican nun praying in her convent garden, a shield with a coat of arms hanging from a tree branch behind her. Likely the frontispiece owner's portrait of an illustrated prayerbook. The illumination would have faced the opening page of text. Provenance: Once sold by Sotheby's, 5 July 2011, lot 9 The shield hanging from the tree bears the arms of the Saint-Genois family, and the unnamed nun depicted in the illumination may have been a family member stationed at the Dominican convent at Forest, near Brussels. The convent's abbess, Margaretha de Gavere de Leiderkercke, is known for having commissioned a number of illuminated volumes. See Smeyers and Van den Stock, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts. Ghent: Ludion Press, 1996, no. 23. Incipit: - Explicit: -
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