Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 249r

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Initial I enclosing half figure of possibly Evangelist John, at beginning of Lauds on Trinity Sunday. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, inhabited by half figure of angel, emerging from cloud, playing harp, and busts of hybrid men or animals, emerging from foliage (right); and another half figure of angel, emerging from cloud, playing lute, flanked by two men, gesturing, amid foliage (lower).