Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Provence, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.358 fol. 110r

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In right margin, weasel, dressed as preacher, stands in pulpit preaching to cock and hen (similar reversed image on verso).
In lower margin, man, nude, grasps foliate extension with right hand (similar reversed image on verso).
Marginal figures set into foliate border decorated with flowers and acanthus leaves.