Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 126r

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Decorated initial A of APRES .I. PETITET DE TANS / (I)L VINT DU CEIL .I. COLONS BLANS ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, praying before Execution -- Dove of Holy Ghost, cross-nimbed, descending with crown in its beak above Margaret, nimbed, veiled, kneeling with joined hands raised, in prison, in right margin.
Hybrid woman, wearing headdress, in lower margin.