Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 23r

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration inhabited by monkey, partly kneeling, raising mirror; bust of mitered bishop; and hybrid man, wearing hood, with face on abdomen and with right hand holding tail (right). Marginal illustrations of Psalms 34 and 35.