Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 125r

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Decorated initial B of BELE LE LESSE ET IL SE SUIT / ET CIL S’ESMERUEILLERET TUIT ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, praying -- Margaret, nimbed, veiled, kneeling with joined hands raised, and nimbed head of Christ above, in right margin.
Bird and hybrid bird, in lower margin; cock in upper margin.