Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 105r

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Two dog (?) heads, addorsed, in decorated initial G.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament. In lower margin is hybrid man, wearing hat, with spear in raised right hand and holding shield in left hand. Before him is man, wearing hat, with his back turned and hindquarters exposed (Scene, Obscaena). Above him is bird. (Scene, Burlesque: Hunting)