Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
England, probably Oxford, ca. 1325-1330
MS M.700 fol. 116r

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Pentecost -- Dove of Holy Ghost, descending from clouds, issues rays toward heads of Virgin Mary, nimbed, with hands raised, and thirteen apostles, all kneeling, two with hands raised.
Scene against gold punched background within initial D with ornament of foliage; spandrels decorated with diapered ornament.
Margins decorated with rectilinear foliate extensions, sprigs of foliage, and animal head spouting foliage.
In upper margin, hybrid animal and hybrid bird.
In right margin, hybrid man holding heraldic escutcheon of du Bois, variant (argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the second a lion rampant of the field), and heraldic escutcheon of du Bois, variant (argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the second a mullet of the field).
In lower margin, stag recumbent, two dogs attacking fox, hybrid bird, and heraldic escutcheon of du Bois (argent, two bars and a canton gules).