Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 197v

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Psalm 116 (Vulg., 114).
Initial B decorated with foliate ornament, adjoined by fantastic animal, on diapered field, with tail of foliate tendrils entwined with animal biting tendril.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: cat holding mouse in mouth.
Line ending: foliate ornament.
Text page of Psalm 116 (Vulg., 114) in Commendation of the Soul.