St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 274–275
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963
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Christopher carries Christ—and the weight of the world—on his shoulders in a landscape considered the finest in the whole book. The depiction of the water, with its reflections, ducks, and leaping fish is unrivaled in manuscript illumination.