Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 69r

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by half figures two female musicians, playing harp and lute, and one woman, with left hand holding ball (right); bear holding scroll (upper right); lion (lower right); and bust of bearded man amid foliage (lower). Decorated margins for beginning of Litany.