Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 159v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid man with animal ears, legs terminating in fish tails, holding club with right hand and raising left hand; man wearing hat, crouching, holding mirror or basin of water.
Head or mask of man as line ending.
Text is from Prayer to the Virgin.