Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Amiens, ca. 1480
MS M.198 fol. 1v

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Heraldry, French: Ailly de Sains (?) -- An escutcheon (quarterly 1-4 gules, bearing an inescutcheon gules a cross or a chief checky of argent and azure; 2-3 gules a bend dexter vair of azure and argent), surmounted by a helmet and a bear (?), collared and langued gules, muzzled vert winged or; with a scroll inscribed CHANGIER NE VEULX. Vinescroll ornament. Below, partially cropped, is name AILLY DE SAINS (?).