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Date: about 1525–1530
Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf
Culture: Flemish
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum

Flowers and insects painted as though they were real objects resting on a gold ground decorate this border, surrounding a textual meditation on Christ and facing an image of the Man of Sorrows. Flemish manuscripts of the later 1400s and the 1500s commonly featured such borders.

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