Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 69r

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Initial M:
Psalm 057 (Vulg., 056).
Male acrobat, armed with sword and shield (buckler), balancing himself on his knee upside-down, on upper left spandrel of decorated initial M with descender formed by fantastic animal.