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Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 82r

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Line ending: two fantastic animals, one swallowing the other biting the first one.
Line ending: one escutcheon of azure, a fess argent, and one heraldic escutcheon of Boisleux.
Line ending: fantastic animal.
Line ending: man, wearing cap, armed with sword and shield (buckler), pursuing horned hybrid animal with human body with right hand indicating hindquarters, holding stick in left hand, and looking back (Scene, Obscaena).
Line ending: two escutcheons, one gules, a cross argent, and the other gules, a bordure argent.
Line ending: man, wearing cap, wrestling with animal.
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
In lower right margin , below last line of text, crane with neck wrapped around word, "Israel", of Psalm 71:22 (Vulg., 70:22).
Text page of Psalm 71:14-22 (Vulg., 70:14-22).



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