Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 190r

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by man, wearing hat over hood, with left hand holding spiked implement, and with right hand holding unidentified escutcheon (or a rampant lion sable langued gules), flanked above and below by half figures of angels, emerging from clouds, one gesturing and one with left hand holding withes and with right hand holding whip (right). Marginal illustrations for beginning of Palm Sunday.