 Mary of Burgundy with the Virgin and Child; Prayer to the Virgin The Hours of Mary of Burgundy, Österrichische Nationalbibliothek, (Vienna, Austria), Codex Vindobonensis 1857, fols. 14v-15r Image presented by permission of Harvey Miller, (London, United Kingdom) and Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, (Graz, Austria). For more information about the facsimiles produced by the Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, visit their website at www.adeva.com. Such depictions of patrons in medieval deviotonal art is common. The facing page contains the prayer Gaude flore virginali. Inside the initial is Saint Thomas Beckett, author of this prayer, and his vision of the Virgin and Child.
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