Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 218v

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberries, inhabited by man, wearing hat over hood, with right hand holding spiked object, and with left hand holding unidentified escutcheon (or a rampant lion sable langued gules). Text is for Lessons in Second Week after Octave of Easter.