Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 171v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid man, wearing knotted sash at waist, raising rod (?) with left hand, and with right hand, grasping nose of animal on his hindquarters; half-figure of man wearing hat, emerging from foliage, displaying open book.
Text is from O intemerata in French.