Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 302r

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Initial C enclosing head of man and Q enclosing head of man, wearing hat, at Tenth and Eleventh Lessons, respectively, read on Eleventh Sunday after Feast of Trinity. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry, inhabited by half figures of two angels, one playing viol, the other playing horn, both emerging from clouds (right).