Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 127v

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Within initial I, Anthony Abbot the Great, rays as nimbus, wearing hat, supporting book with right arm, holding bell with right hand and crozier with left hand, stands amid flames next to pig in landscape flanked by two rocky outcrops and tree.
Blue background decorated with gold scrollwork.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in left margin.
Beginning of Introit for feast of Anthony of Padua, 06.13.