Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 75r

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration inhabited by half figures of two prophets, one with right hand holding scroll inscribed AETURNUM DED ... (?), and the other with left hand holding inscribed scroll (largely illegible) (right). Decorated margins of the Canticle of Jeremiah.