Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, ca. 1280s
MS M.183 fol. 197v

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Initial E:
Half figure of nimbed male saint with joined hands raised in front.
Initial I:
Nimbed male saint, with right hand raised and book in left hand, stands beneath gabled trefoil arch niche and on hybrid man.
Initial S:
Initial O:
Half figure of nimbed male saint with right hand raised and scroll in draped left hand.
Figures within initials decorated with balls and foliate extensions, one with perching bird in lower margin, all at beginning of Collects following Litany and Preces.