Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Northern France or Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1350
MS G.24 fol. 82v

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Perducas: Scene, slaying Indian -- Perducas, wearing armor and helmet, riding horse, uses axe to strike Indian, wearing armor and helmet, holding decorated shield, riding horse. Around them, soldiers in armor fight, some on horseback, some on foot, carrying (variously) bows and arrows, swords, axes, spears, decorated shields, and heraldic banner.
Scene against gold background within decorated frame. Illustration of Jacques de Longuyon, Voeux du paon, Laisse 218.
In left margin, hybrid animal with fantastic bird head. Crowned hybrid animal with two faces. Hybrid animal with fantastic bird head.
In lower margin, ape defecates into basket.