Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 221r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man holding arrow and bow; half-figure of nude, winged man emerging from foliage, holding spear with right hand.
Text is from Psalm 27 (Vulg., 26), Office of the Dead, 2. Matins, 2. Nocturn.