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.

594. MS M.399, fol. 299v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 299v

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

A nimbed Augustine of Hippo, wearing a bishop's miter and vestments, stands in a landscape with barren trees and in the distance a city built along a river with a ship on it. He holds a crozier in his right hand and a heart in his left hand.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with flowers and inhabited by butterflies and, in the lower left corner, a cripple holding a lantern.