Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 17r

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Margins decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid man wearing helmet and armor holding lance (?) with right hand and shield with left, emerging from body of animal on which is face and ears; man holding bow (?) with both hands.
Text is from Gospel Sequence of John.