Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 108v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by: 1) half figure of man emerging from barrel, holding covered pitcher in right hand and drinking from cup held with left hand in upper left margin; 2) woman, kneeling, wearing headdress, holding vase in extended right hand, in lower margin. Text from the Office of the Dead.