Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 215r

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Margin, upper: Hybrid owl, with asses ears, facing left. Margin, center: Head of lion emerging from foliate bud. Margin, right: Hybrid Man, with head of cat (?), emerging from end of garment, and with cat paws for feet, raises axe over head. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including daisies, columbines and strawberry. Text is Chapter from Lauds for the Common of the Apostles.