Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps in Berry, ca. 1510
MS M.250 fol. 8v

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Zodiac Sign: Virgo -- Woman, holding flower with raised right hand and palm with left hand, seated on cushion.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including viola, and inhabited by fly sitting on hindquarters dog confronting hybrid man with body of dog.