Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, ca. 1511
MS M. 8 fol. 152r

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Christ: teaching -- Group of apostles, nimbed, most only nimbus visible, seated, looking up toward Christ, crossed nimbus, raising right hand. Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including holly, thistle, cornflower, daisy, strawberry, campanula, and rose, and inhabited by fantastic bird with face on breast, and seated fantastic animal. Text is collect for 1st Vespers on 8th Sunday after Pentecost.