Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 51v

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Initial D enclosing head of bearded man.
Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man wearing conical hat with knotted headdress, arms extended, with purse at waist; half-figure of man wearing miter (?), raising right hand, holding stick with left hand, emerging from vase amid foliage.