Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 263v

See more information »

Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry, inhabited by man, wearing hat over hood, with right hand holding rod, and with left hand on shield, decorated with face of bearded man, in profile (left); busts of possibly five helmeted sodiers emerging from foliage (upper, left and lower).