Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Saint-Omer, between 1320 and 1329
MS M.754 fol. 130v

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Decorated initial T of THEOTIMUS FU .I. PREUDOM / QUI LI LIUROIT EN LA PRISON ...
Margins decorated with foliate stems and balls.
Margaret of Antioch: Scene, Burial -- Two men holding ointment (?) jars, one wearing cap, extending right hand to nimbed head of Margaret (erroneously bearded), on draped shroud or winding sheet, in lower margin.
Two birds, one in left margin, and the other in right margin; snail in upper margin.