Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 18r

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Margins decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: woman, wearing crown of flowers, holding with left hand ring partially decorated with flowers, is seated next to stalk of flowers; winged hybrid animal wearing pointed crown, blowing horn or shawm held in left paw, with human face on hindquarters.
Text is from Gospel Sequence of Luke.