Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including rose, inhabited by: 1) wild man, kneeling on right knee, right arm drawn back as with arrow, left arm holding bow, in top margin; 2) stork, in left margin; 3) wild man, kneeling, holding stick in right hand and blowing horn held by left hand, in lower left margin. Text from Hours of the Virgin, Compline.