Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, ca. 1511
MS M. 8 fol. 151v

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Christ: teaching -- Twelve apostles, nimbed, most only nimbus visible, stand looking toward Christ, crossed nimbus, gesturing with right hand. Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including campanula, thistle, strawberry, grape, and daisy, and inhabited by duck (?) and hybrid wild man playing lute. Text is collect in 1st Vespers on 7th Sunday after Pentecost.