Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Livre de la chasse
France, Paris, ca. 1406-1407
MS M.1044 fol. 59r

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Scene, Sports and Games: Hunting, Deer -- Two horseman, wearing hats, blowing hunting horns and with swords at waists ride toward leaping stag. In foreground, at left, three men, two wearing hats, stand with seven dogs. Two other dogs leap toward the stag; man wearing hood holding staff with left hand blows horn.
Scene in grassy landscape with trees and flowering plants against decorated background.
Ornament of rinceaux in margins.