Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gradual
France, Dijon, 1470
MS M.115 fol. 196v

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Margins decorated with floreate border, inhabited by lions flanking escutcheon with arms of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (quarterly burgundy modern and ancient) impaled with those of his wife, Margaret III, countess of Flanders (or a lion rampant sable).
Profile face of bishop, wearing miter and eyeglasses, in decorated intitial B.