Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead Opening Prayers (recto)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead Opening Prayers (recto)

Coëtivy Master (French) · c. 1460

Ink, tempera and gold on vellum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

St. Alexis is depicted here as a courtly person of the 1400s to bring him close to the reader.

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