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.

344. MS M.917/945, pp. 302–303

St. Dorothy

ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 302–303

Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963

The patron saint of gardeners, Dorothy wears a rose garland and carries, in addition to her martyr's palm, a basket of roses or fruit. On her way to be executed for her faith, Dorothy was asked by a pagan named Theophilus to send him some flowers and fruit from heaven. An angel brought him a basket with three apples and three roses, at which he converted and was subsequently martyred. The border is a vine-covered gold trellis surrounding the garden of Paradise at the bottom. In the garden, two angels sit playing instruments, a dulcimer and a portative organ. The castle-topped well in the middle is the source of two of paradise's rivers.