Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Avignon, approximately 1485-1490
MS M.348 fol. 231r

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Angel, Archangel Michael: transfixing Dragon -- Archangel Michael, raising sword with right hand, extending shield in left hand hovers opposite winged dragon; Mont-S.-Michel on island in sea is below them.
Margins decorated with bands of floreate ornament and inhabited by fantastic animal and monkey with crutch.