Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 262r

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by man, wearing hat over hood, with left hand holding rod, and with right hand on shield, flanked above and below by half figures of angels, playing trumpets, emerging from cloudy arcs (right); bust of possibly helmeted sodier emerging from foliage (upper); and half figures of two men amid foliage (lower).