Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, Paris, ca. 1350
MS M.75 fol. 567r

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Bishop, nimbed, wearing miter and cope, sits on bench before drawn curtain and lectern with open book with pseudo-inscription and points with right hand at male cleric, tonsured, seated on ground with scroll with pseudo-inscription.
Scene against patterned background in barbed quatrefoil.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), fox chases two cocks.
In margins, foliate extensions inhabited by birds and hybrid dragon.