Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, ca. 1511
MS M. 8 fol. 160r

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Pharisee: conspiring against Christ -- Four men, wearing fur-lined hoods, seated, three gesturing. Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including grape, thistle, cornflower, campanula, bladder cherry, daisy and holly, and inhabited by two fantastic animals, one with single horn. Text is collect for 1st Vespers on 22nd Sunday after Pentecost.