Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425
MS M.1004 fol. 173r

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Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by: 1) hybrid man, wearing hat, holding adze with both hands raised behind his back, looking toward overturned pitcher before him, in upper margin; 2) hybrid man, wearing hat, left arm raised, his lower body covered by winged snail shell, in right margin. Text from Mass for Virgin Mary.