Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 71v

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Initial D enclosing head of youthful male.
Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid with face on abdomen emerging from human torso; nude man, astride dog, his left arm down throat of dog, his right hand grasping tail of dog (Scene, Burlesque: Riding).