Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 57r

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Psalm 119:161 (Vulg. 118:161). Initial P enclosing head of man. Decorated initial of Psalm 119:161. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by man, possibly tonsured cleric (upper); woman (left); and angel (lower); all half figures, gesturing and emerging from clouds.