Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

555. MS M.399, fol. 279v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 279v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Apostle James, wearing a pilgrim's purse and a pilgrim's hat inscribed with two shells flanking two crossed staffs, supports himself with a staff held in his left hand on top of which he places a book with two clasps. He stands within a landscape with buildings enclosed in a fence. A man with a backpack walks up the path toward the summit of a rocky hill.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with leafless vines intertwining to form roundels, which contain jeweled pendants.