Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 22r

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including strawberry, inhabited by eagle and by half figure of man, wearing hat, holding distaff under left arm and spindle in right hand, emerging from flower on long stem issuing from doughnut shaped vase. Text, Hours of the Virgin, Matins.