Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 109v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by: 1) monk, tonsured, seated with closed book on lap, and ram emerging from snail shell, both in left margin; 2) fantastic butterfly in lower margin. Text from the Office of the Dead.