Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 60r

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Five initials, I decorated with foliage, at beginning of Psalm 11 (Vulg., 10), In domino confido, Q enclosing animal, Q enclosing animal, D enclosing head of man with grotesque features, and O enclosing animal, in Lauds of Long Hours of the Cross / Hours of the Passion.
Margins decorated with curvilinear foliate stems and balls.
Margins, lower and right, inhabited by two hybrid men of heads and legs, one with head in bow below arrow pointing upward.
Line endings decorated.