Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 240v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of man emerging from foliage, grasping with each hand animal ears (?) on his head; half-figure of man wearing hood and hat, emerging from foliage, playing cornetto.
Text is from Isaiah 38, Office of the Dead, 3. Lauds, Canticle: Hezekiah.