Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 167r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man, holding mirror with left hand, emerging from feathers or foliage; hybrid man wearing hat, holding scimitar with right hand and ball (?) with left hand, lower part of his body as fish.
Text is Obsecro te in French.