
Collection Online as of December 10, 2019
Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Sheet: 22.9 x 15.9 cm (9 x 6 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1949.205
not on view
In addition to the Virgin and St. John, this image includes a kneeling bishop (probably the donor of the manuscript) and a kneeling Carthusian monk along the lower right-hand edge. The manuscript may have been commissioned by this unknown bishop-donor and given to a Carthusian monastery with which he had some connection. Bishops frequently donated manuscripts to ecclesiastical foundations during the Middle Ages.