Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 96v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including strawberry, inhabited by: 1) angel, playing harp, emerging from horn, in upper margin; 2) woman, seen from back, resting on elbows, lower part of body in mouth of fantastic fish, in lower margin; 3) man, peering out of window in front of wooden chest, in lower margin. Text from Hours of the Holy Spirit.