Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 206v

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Initial D decorated with diapered infilling, adjoined by fantastic animal with tail of foliate tendrils, at beginning of Collect in Prime of Long Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Initial D of blue tubes with foliate terminals, filgree infilling, and geometric and foliate interstices with gold punched spandrels, at beginning of First Versicle in Terce of Long Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: heraldic escutcheon of Neuville-Vitasse.
Line ending: geometric ornament.