Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 207r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: man wearing hood, arms extended, balancing himself on left hand and foot, right foot in air; hybrid man with distorted face, wearing veil, with body of camel.
Text is from Office of the Dead, Vespers.