Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 235v

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by half figures of two prophets, emerging from clouds, one with right hand holding scroll inscribed CAPTIVA(M) D(UXIT), and the other with left hand holding scroll inscribed DEDIT DONA HO(M)I(NIBUS) (left). Decorated margins of Lessons on Sunday of the Octave of the Ascension.