Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 247v

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Initial N enclosing half figure of man, raising right hand, at beginning of Leo X’s Sermon in the Octave of Pentecost. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry, inhabited by half figures of two men, one gesturing, amid foliage (lower).