Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 156r

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by: 1) hybrid man, holding sack on head with both hands, wearing bicolored tunic, with windmill resting on hindquarters, in upper margin; 2) man, wearing hat and hood, seated, with two drums in his lap, holding drumstick in each raised hand, in right margin; 3) man seated, holding book on lap with both hands, in lower margin. Text from Mass for Trinity Sunday.