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Breviary
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.52 fol. 37v

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Stephen Protomartyr, nimbed, tonsured, wearing deacon's vestments, stone on bleeding head, holds book under right arm and stones in folds of vestments with his hands. Landscape in background.
Miniature and text framed by border decorated with budding and full flowers, including thistle, violas, cornflowers, and pinks, and inhabited by moths and butterfly.



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