Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 59r

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by cat, crouching, looking toward mouse looking back toward cat, and by wild man blowing trumpet or shawm held in right hand, and holding stick in left hand, all in lower margin. Text from Hours of the Virgin, Compline.