Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 239v

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Initial E enclosing head of man wearing cap with chin strap.
Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid man wearing hood, looking upward, arms raised, his torso emerging from back of bird, its head at his right hand, tail feathers below his left hand; half-figure of winged man with animal ears, emerging from foliage, playing triangle.