Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 156r

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Initial B enclosing head of man wearing hat and hood.
Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid woman, wearing wimpled (?) veil, holding spindle and distaff; half-figure of bear, wearing collar (?) emerging from foliage.