Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 153v

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Initial E enclosing head of woman wearing headdress.
Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: man, wearing headdress, trousers falling, raising scourge with right hand, straddling staff held with left hand; hybrid man, with body of quadruped, wearing tall pointed hat, holding spear under right arm, and shield with human face with left.