Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 128v

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Decorated initial A of AMIS SE TU AS VEU DIEU / DONC ME DONES RESPIT E LIEU ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, praying -- Margaret, nimbed, veiled, kneeling with joined hands raised; above, head of Christ, cross-nimbed, below foliate stem, in right margin.
Hybrid bird with animal ears, and dog wagging its tail in lower margin; butterfly and bird in left margin.