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Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 298r

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Initial I enclosing nimbed Evangelist Symbol of Matthew (angel), with both hands holding blank scroll; against gold background, at beginning of Ninth Lesson for Sixth Sunday after Feast of Trinity. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling floreate and foliate decoration, including strawberry, inhabited by half figures of two men amid foliage (lower).



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