Cutting with miniature showing a layman and a cleric kneeling before Christ or Jeremiah, from the Hastière Bible, Southern Netherlands, 14th century.
A duplicate number MS.223 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.

Miniature showing a layman and a cleric kneeling before Christ or Jeremiah. The layman holds a scroll with inscription: 'Miserere mei domine' (Have mercy on me, O God) and the cleric holds an open book above his head and a scroll with his name: 'Egidius de Romereet'. This miniature is at the end of the prologue to the Book of Jeremiah.
Rubrics: Explicit prologus.
Incipit Iheremias propheta.

Probably commissioned by the couple depicted in the Crucifixion scene (Museum no. 279:1) identified by the scrolls they hold as Johans de Hastières and Magrite de Matetio (?) Voisia. The cleric depicted kneeling before Christ (?) (Museum no. 246:10), called 'Egidius de Romereet' would also have been involved in the commissioning of the Bible, which was in multiple volumes. May have been made in the region of Hastière, south of Namur.
Purchased from J. and S. Goldschmidt as part of three portfolios (now Museum nos 234-296) designated as a 'Illuminations: a collection of 338 specimens, pages and cuttings' for the total sum of £100.0.0, received on 15 October 1872; passed on for Register in April 1874 (see Register of Drawings).
Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: 246:7, 246:8, 246:9, 246:10, 260:1, 260:2, 260:3, 260:4, 260:5, 260:6, 260:7, 279:1, 279:2.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: Philadelphia, Free Library; Nuremberg, Nationalmuseum; Paris, Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Zeileis collection and on the market. For full details, see Peter Kidd, 'Leaves and Cuttings from the Hastière Bible', in Medieval Manuscripts Provenance blog, 2016.

246:10