Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 78r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid animal, crowned, walking on crutches resembling sawhorses; man, possibly dancing, playing bagpipe with right hand, raising bell with left hand.
Text is from Psalm 46 (Vulg., 45), Hours of the Virgin, 1. Matins, 2. Nocturn.