Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 94v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including pink, inhabited by: 1) hybrid man, wearing hood, blowing horn held with both hands, from which issues vine, in upper margin; 2) fantastic bird with knot in neck in left margin; dog, winged (?), wearing hat, standing in lower margin. Text from Hours of the Cross.