Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 13r

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration inhabited by two hybrid men, both with two-legged horse-like bodies, one holding shield, the other wearing hat and cape, and bust of man or prophet, wearing conical hat, amid foliage (right); and dragon, partly-formed by foliage (lower). Marginal illustrations of Psalm 9.