Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1460
MS M.972 fol. 103r

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Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament, including viola, and inhabited by pheasant pecking its back; woman wearing hat and gloves, standing next to, or on back of, swan; hybrid man wearing hat, carrying on left shoulder (?) pole with buckets hung on its hooked ends, holding pitcher with right hand.