Decorated Text Page; Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, about 1525-1530. Additional Info:Flowers and insects painted as though they were real objects resting on a gold ground decorate this border, surrounding a textual meditation on Christ and facing an image of the Man of Sorrows. Flemish manuscripts of the later 1400s and the 1500s commonly featured such borders.

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