Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 129r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: nude youth seated opposite and extending hands to sheep sitting up on haunches; hybrid man, crowned, with body of bird.
Text is from Psalm 51 (Vulg., 51), Seven Penitential Psalms.