Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 122r

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Decorated initial Q of QUANT OT FINEE S’ORISON / SI REGARDA EN .I. ANGLON ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, Devil appearing in Prison -- Devil raising grapnel above Margaret, nimbed, with joined hands raised, kneeling, turning head toward the devil, both in crenellated prison; above, hybrid man, wearing hat, holding distaff; all in right margin.
Two hybrid soldiers wearing chain mail, one wearing ailettes, in lower margin; hybrid of human hand and animal legs, in left margin.