Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 234v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of woman wearing headdress, emerging from foliage, holding bow with right hand, indicating the bow with left hand; half-figure of man wearing hat, emerging from foliage, raising right hand, holding leaf or feather with left hand.
Text is from Psalm 51 (Vulg., 50), Office of the Dead, Lauds.