Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 105r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid man, wearing cap with chin strap, left hand holding tail feathers of his bird body, right hand holding scroll; winged (?) man, wearing hood, emerging from flower, raising long bone with left hand.
Text is from Psalm 5 (Vulg., 5), Hours of the Virgin, 3. Prime.