Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 21v

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Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration inhabited by winged dragon-like hybrid man and monkey (upper); half figures of two angels emerging from clouds, one playing horn, and bust of woman (left); winged dragon and hybrid man with two-legged horse-like body, wearing hood (lower). Marginal illustrations of Psalms 34 and 35.