Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 223r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: man, head draped with mantle, raising small round shield (buckler) with right hand, wearing purse at waist; hybrid bird, crowned, raising right hand, holding club with left hand.
Text is from Job 13, Office of the Dead, 2. Matins, 2. Nocturn, 4. Lesson