Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 68r

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including viola, inhabited by: 1)hybrid man, wearing hat, holding shield in right hand and raising club in left hand, in top margin; 2) hybrid man, wearing crown, holding bellows under chin as violin and using tongs, held with left hand, as bow, in lower right margin. Text from Psalter of Jerome.