Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 178r

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Margin, lower: Pair of confronting doves perch amid foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including daisies, roses and strawberry; some foliate sprays issuing from vase in right margin. Text is for feasts of twin brothers Mark and Marcellianus of Rome (06.18) and beginning of the Vigil of the Birth of John Baptist (06.23).