MS M.50, Fol. 14v

St. Nicholas Delivering the Dowry to the Three Poor Maidens (fol. 14v, left)

Nicholas, who inherited wealth from his parents, secretly delivers bags of gold to an impoverished nobleman to provide marriage dowries for his three daughters, so they may find husbands.

Without a dowry (the money or other valuable gift that a woman brings to her husband in marriage), these poor women would have been forced into prostitution. Nicholas piously saved them from such a sinful fate.