Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 159v

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Line ending: two fantastic animals.
Line ending: two men combatting with swords and shields (bucklers).
Line ending: escutcheon of gules, a fretty argent; man, armed with sword and shield (buckler), encountering horned fantastic animal (only partly visible).
Line ending: hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: two escutcheons, one azure, a chevron between annulets argent, and the other gules with a charge only half visible.
Line ending: bird pecking at protruding tongue of fox lying on its back, beside another bird (Bestiary: Fox feigning Death).
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Exodus 15:08-16.