Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 59r

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Line ending: two hybrid men, one wearing cap, and the other with escutcheon of Neuville-Vitasse, fighting with spears and shields (Burlesque: Fighting).
Line ending: escutcheon of vert, a fess argent.
Line ending: snail encountering soldier, wearing helmet and chain mail, armed with sword and shield, hurling javelin.
Line ending: two hybrid men combatting wih swords and shields (bucklers).
Line ending: two escutcheons, one vert, a fess argent, and the other gules, a bordure argent.
Line ending: fantastic animal.
Line ending: heraldic escutcheon of Boisleux.
Line endings: foliate and geometric ornament.
Text page of Psalm 44:16-25 (Vulg., 43:17-26).
Lower margin: fantastic animal with open jaws around words "nomen tuum" of Psalm 44:25 (Vulg., 43:26) below text block.