Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 117v

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Decorated initial O of OLIBRIUS EST COROUCIEZ / DE MALTALENT EST CHANGIEZ ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, before Olybrius -- Margaret of Antioch, nimbed, raises hands toward Olybrius, crowned, seated on bench, with left forefinger pointing to right hand raised, in lower right margin.
Two hybrid soldiers wearing helmets of chain mail, one holding spear in left margin, and the other kneeling behind the saint in lower margin.
Bird in left margin.