Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Warburg hours
Belgium, Antwerp, between 1460 and 1470
MS M.1178. Fol. 012r

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Margins inhabited by hooded man mounted on bull (upper right), and bas-de-page illustration of three men, wearing hats, kneeling or sitting around blanket spread with two dice, two with fists raised (Scene, Sports and Games: Dicing or possibly suggesting Christ: Casting of Lots for Garments);
full borders decorated with floreate and foliate decoration, including daisies and columbines.
Initial H of Heere decorated with foliage beginning Short Hours of the Cross at Matins.