Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 220r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man wearing hat emerging from foliage holding scroll with right hand; half-figure of man emerging from flower, extending right hand, holding staff with left hand.
Text is from Psalm 25 (Vulg. 24), Office of the Dead, Matins, 2. Nocturn.