Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 164v

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including strawberry, inhabited by: 1) hybrid man, wearing hat, turned back, holding tail with right hand and indicating ground below hindquarters with left hand, in left margin; 2) wild man, wearing hat, playing psaltery with both hands, looking up, in lower margin. Text from Mass for the Assumption.