Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
England, probably Oxford, ca. 1325-1330
MS M.700 fol. 113r

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Christ, crossed nimbus, sits on architectural bench, raises right hand in blessing, and holds tripartite globe in left hand.
Figure against rose background, within building representing church, against gold punched background within initial D with ornament of foliage; spandrels decorated with diapered ornament.
Margins decorated with rectilinear foliate extensions and sprigs of foliage.
In right margin, hooded hybrid man gesturing, bird perching on tendril, and heraldic escutcheon of Oddingsell (argent, a fess gules, in the dexter chief a mullet of the second).
In lower margin, heraldic escutcheon of du Bois (argent, two bars and a canton gules), flanked by hybrid animal and dog with their jaws open.
In left margin, heraldic escutcheon of Oddingsell (argent, a fess gules, in the dexter chief a mullet of the second).