Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man wearing hat, emerging from foliage, carrying basket (?) on back with poles over both shoulders; half-figure of winged man with animal ears, emerging from foliage, holding rod on which are spokes.
Text is Psalm 5 (Vulg., 5), Hours of the Virgin, 3. Prime.