Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 256v

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Initial O enclosing chalice surmounted by cross-inscribed wafer at beginning of Third Lesson in Lauds of Friday for Feast of Corpus Christi. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry, inhabited by half figures of two men amid foliage (lower).