Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Livre de la chasse
France, Paris, ca. 1406-1407
MS M.1044 fol. 103r

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Scene, Sports and Games: Hunting, Deer -- Man, wearing crown of leaves, aiming crossbow, kneels on one knee amid branches as camouflage on cart drawn by horse with rider, both surrounded by branches. Rider wears crown of leaves. They approach three deer (two stag and one doe).
Scene in grassy landscape with trees, against decorated background.
Ornament of rinceaux in margins.