Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 193r

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Initial I enclosing half figure of man, possibly Jeremiah, with right forefinger raised at beginning of Lesson on Monday in Holy Week. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by ornamental figures, possibly lion, emerging out of foliate buds.