3-042-697 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Two Bishops and a Nimbed Priest: Two Nimbed Abbots and a Nimbed Monk: Noli me tangere: Saint Felicity with an Ointment Jar: Saint Perpetua with a Book and a Martyr's Palm; Ruskin Hours; All the Holy Confessors, All the Monastic and Hermit Saints, Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint Felicity, and Saint Perpetua, about 1300. Additional Info: This book of hours contains an extremely rare example of an illustrated Litany of the Saints, which displays in visual terms the heavenly hierarchy of all holy men and women. It begins with patriarchs and prophets, continues with postbiblical types of saints such as confessors, monks, hermits, women, and virgin saints, and finishes with "All Saints."