Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 229v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: animal, seated on flower, wearing garments, reading scroll; half-figure of angel playing lute, emerging from foliage.
Text is from Psalm 042 (Vulg., 041), Office of the Dead, 2. Matins, 3. Nocturn.