Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, ca. 1470
MS M.28 fol. 145r

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Amid foliate ornament in margins are hybrid man, with pointed ears, bird body and serpent tail; hybrid man with dog (?) hindquarters, wearing purse at waist and aiming bow and arrow; bird, with wings extended and right foot raised; hybrid man, with snail shell and pointed ears, holding spear in right hand and shield in left hand; and hybrid man, wearing hood, with bat wings.