Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 200v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of nude youthful male, raising stone above head with both hands; half-figure of youthful nude male, raising shield with both hands, looking up toward figure with stone.
Text is from suffrage to Mary of Egypt.