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Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 161r

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Line ending: escutcheon of Neuville-Vitasse.
Line ending: two nude men, in jaws of fantastic animals, fighting with swords and shields (bucklers).
Line ending: two escutcheons, one of Boisleux, and the other gules, a bordure argent.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: escutcheon of gules, a border and a canton argent; man, armed with sword and shield (buckler), encountering seated hybrid animal indicating hindquarters with right hand, holding stick in left hand, and looking back (Scene, Obscaena).
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Habakkuk 03:13-19.
In lower margin, fantastic animal with animal mask in middle of tail, wrapped around word of "[psal]mis canentem." of verse 19 of Habakkuk 3 below last line in lower margin.



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