Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, Paris, ca. 1350
MS M.75 fol. 485v

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Louis of France, nimbed, crowned, wearing blue cloak decorated with gold fleurs-de-lis, holds scepter in right hand and book in left hand.
Figure against patterned background in barbed quatrefoil.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), hybrid man, crowned, points to rabbit.
In margins, foliate extensions inhabited by birds and hybrid dragon.