Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 227r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: fantastic animal; hybrid man with body and tail of squirrel, extending spindle held with both hands.
Text from Psalm 40 (Vulg., 39) Office of the Dead, 2. Matins, 3. Nocturn.