Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 133r

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Initials L and Q, enclosing heads of men, wearing hats. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, inhabited by prophet holding scroll inscribed O MARIA, flanked above and below by half figures of cleric and prophet, holding blank scroll, both emerging from cloudy arcs of Heaven (right); and two men, one wearing cap, and the other wearing conical hat (upper and lower right); bearded man amid foliage (lower).