Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid man wearing headdress, with body of bird, perching on foliage; man crouching over flower aiming stick in left hand toward round object.
Text from Psalm 40 (Vulg., 39) Office of the Dead, 2. Matins, 3. Nocturn.