Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 364r

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Miniature, vignette, right: Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, with hands extended toward Elizabeth, veiled with wimple, both nimbed. Scene in hilly landscape with city buildings in background. Miniature for Lessons in Matins for Feast of the Visitation (07.02). Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry.