Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, ca. 1511
MS M. 8 fol. 153v

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Christ: Parable, Pharisee and Publican -- Two or three apostles, nimbed, one only nimbus visible, stand behind Christ, crossed nimbus, gesturing and looking toward two men wearing hats, one with knotted sash, raising right hand. Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including strawberry, campanula, thistle, bladder cherry, and daisy, and inhabited by bird and hybrid animal playing bagpipe. Text is collect for 1st Vespers on 10th Sunday after Pentecost.