Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 207v

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Margin, upper: Hybrid man, wearing helmet of foliage and body of legs. Margin, center: Head of pope (?), wearing triple-crowned tiara over conical hat, emerging from foliate bud. Margin, lower: Pair of confronting sirens with peacock tails amid foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including violas and strawberry. Text from Feast of Apostles Simon and Jude (10.28) and beginning of feast of All Saints (11.01).