Manuscript Leaf wtih Saint Dorothy, from a Book of Hours

Netherlandish

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Dressed as a middle class woman with a book in her lap, Saint Dorothy appears at the beginning of a prayer in her honor. The coat of arms and motto ("God be kind to us, luck fails ever so often") at the bottom of the leaf are of an unidentified Flemish family.

Manuscript Leaf wtih Saint Dorothy, from a Book of Hours, Tempera, ink, and shell gold on parchment, Netherlandish

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Manuscript Leaf wtih Saint Dorothy, from a Book of Hours, Tempera, ink, and shell gold on parchment, Netherlandish
Manuscript Leaf wtih Saint Dorothy, from a Book of Hours, Tempera, ink, and shell gold on parchment, Netherlandish

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