Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 224v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man wearing hat and flowing cape, emerging from flower, holding scroll with right hand, raising left hand; man wearing cap seated next to, and leaning on, chest, holding sack with right hand and stack of coins with left hand.
Text is from Job 14, Office of the Dead, 2. Matins, 2. Nocturn, 6. Lesson.