Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 162v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including strawberry and rose,, inhabited by: 1) bear with bat wings in upper margin; 2) winged hybrid man in left margin; 3) hybrid man, wearing helmet and bicolor garment, his right hand pulling saber from sheath held with left hand, in lower margin. Text from Mass for birth of John Baptist.