Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 120v

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Decorated initial T of TANDIS QU’ELE SE DEMENTOIT / AU PUEPLE QU’ ENTOR LI ESTOIT ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, entering Prison -- Margaret, nimbed, in basket let down by rope held by man, beside prison with raised portcullis, on tip of foliage in right margin.
Soldier wearing chain mail, armed with weapon, standing on foliate bar in lower margin; hybrid soldier, wearing chain mail and ailettes, in left margin; and head of man, wearing fillet, on horizontal stem in upper margin.