Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 187v

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Francis of Assisi, decorated nimbus, tonsured, showing wounds in hands, side and feet, wearing habit of monk.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament and bunches of twigs, and inhabited by parrot (?), hybrid man and fantastic animal.