Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 139r

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Within initial I, Augustine of Hippo, rays as nimbus, wearing miter and cope, holding heart with right hand and miter with left hand, with background of dado below blue wall decorated with gold scrollwork.
Beginning of Introit for feast of Augustine of Hippo, 08.28.
Within initial I, John Baptist, rays as nimbus, holding book with left hand, indicates with right hand Lamb of God, holding bannered cross-staff, standing at feet of John.
Figures in landscape with rocky outcrops and trees; background of red decorated with gold scrollwork.
Beginning of Introit for feast of the beheading of John Baptist, 08.29.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bars.