Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 150v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by: 1) woman, wearing wimple and veil, emerging from vase, in upper margin; 2) green parrot in left margin; 3) hybrid nun, with wimpled veil, holding book with both hands, and crozier with right claw, in lower margin. Text from Mass.