Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 134v

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Within initial S, Stephen Protomartyr, rays as nimbus, holding stone with both hands, wearing deacon's vestments stands before low wall below red wall decorated with gold scrollwork.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in center.
Beginning of Introit for feast of Stephen Protomartyr, Invention of Relics, 08.03.