Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Animal, Fantastic.
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1440
MS M.357. Fol. 119v

See more information »

Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by fantastic animal holding foliage in snout; hybrid man, mouth open, holding small round shield (buckler) with right hand and raising scimitar with left hand; fantastic animal emerging from flower. Text and miniature framed on three sides by gold bars decorated with flowering vines.
Text is Prime for Hours of the Dead for Monday.