Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 422r

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Miniature, column, right: Virgin, nimbed, wearing mantle, with right hand holding down-turned roses and with left hand gathering garment; in room with window. Miniature at beginning of Chapter for Feast of a Virgin. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, inhabited by two prophets, wearing hats, emerging from clouds, holding scrolls inscribed H(IC) EST U(IR)GO S(UI) (?) and AUDI FILIA (right).