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Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 182r

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Line ending: hybrid man, crowned, with two bodies.
Line ending: heraldic escutcheon of Boisleux.
Line ending: two nude men, one in jaws of animal, and the other in jaws of fantastic animal, both fighting with swords and shields (bucklers).
Line ending: four escutcheons, the first Boisleux, the second gules, a cross argent, the third vert, a fess argent, and the fourth as half-shield of gules, a bordure argent.
Line ending: fantastic animal with round object in its jaws.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: three men dancing, the second with raised hands pointing to head, looking back at the first, and the third holding bagpipe (Sports and Games: Dancing).
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Psalm 25 (Vulg., 24) of Second Nocturn in Matins of Office of the Dead.



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