Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 195v

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Initial P decorated with filigree infilling, diapered spandrels, and foliate ornament entwined with animal on diapered field, at beginning of Collect.
Initial D decorated with filigree infilling, diapered spandrels, and adjoined by fantastic animal entwined with and bitten by animal on diapered field. Beginning of Collect.
Initial O decorated with filigree infilling, diapered spandrels, and foliage on which monkey, with round object in mouth, sits or slides down. Beginning of Collect.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: hybrid woman, wearing berbette, confronting hybrid man (hybrid couple).
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Collects in Lauds of Office of the Dead.