Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 331v

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Miniature, column, right: Vincent of Saragossa, nimbed, tonsured, wearing deacon’s vestments, with right hand holding forked implement and with left hand holding book; in landscape and against patterned background. Miniature at beginning of First Lesson on the Feast of Vincent of Saragossa (01.22). Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry, inhabited by lion as bishop, wearing miter with infulae and collar, with tongue protruding (left).