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.

622. MS M.399, fol. 314v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 314v

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

Within a landscape, a nimbed Onuphrius of Egypt, wearing sackcloth, kneels with his hands joined before a crucifix in a niche of a stone wall. He holds a rosary in his right hand.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with flowers, including a potted plant, and inhabited by a butterfly, snails, and a fly.