Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 106v

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Margin, left: Christ: teaching (?) -- Christ, crossed-nimbus as rays, gesturing before four men, wearing hats or headgear (two with only heads visible). Scene in landscape with city in background. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including daisies, columbines, and strawberries, inhabited by monkeys (upper and lower).