Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Within initial E, Apostle James Major, rays as nimbus, holding, with right hand, rod with bundle over right shoulder, and book with left hand, standing in landscape flanked by two rocky outcrops with trees.
Red background decorated with gold ornament.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in left margin.
Beginning of Collect for feast of Apostle James Major, 07.25.