Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 52v

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by half figure of man emerging from cloud (upper); man, wearing hat, possibly seated, gesturing (left); and half figure of angel emerging from cloud, gesturing (lower). Marginal illustrations of Psalms 113 and 114.