Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Diurnal of Isabelle de Bourbon
France, Amiens, ca. 1455
MS M.221 fol. 21v

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Margin, left: Peacock (damaged). Margin, lower: Bearded hybrid man with body of dog, wearing collar, rests its front forepaws on open book with pseudo-inscriptions. Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including daisies; some vessels issuing foliate sprays. Text is from end of Vigil of Octave of Christmas, Vespers (12.31) and beginning of Lauds for Octave of Christmas (01.01).