Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 30r

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Initial T enclosing head of man wearing hat and hood.
Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of youthful man, beardless, wearing hat, holding sword with right hand and small round shield (buckler) with left hand, emerging from foliage; man wearing hood, bent over, arms crossed, looking up over his left shoulder.