Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 133r

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Within initial M, Mary Magdalen, rays as nimbus, holding ointment jar with right hand and palm with left hand, standing in landscape flanked by two rocky outcrops and trees with 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 Mary Magdalen, 07.22.