Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 216v

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Hybrid Man
Initial B decorated with diapered infilling and ascender of fantastic animal with tail of foliate tendrils, and descender of two entwined fantastic animals.
Line ending: man, armed with sword and shield (buckler), encountering nude man, indicating hindquarters with right hand, holding stick in left hand, and looking back (Scene, Obscaena).
Line ending: escutcheon of Neuville-Vitasse.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: three escutcheons, the first Boisleux, the second gules, a cross argent, and the third as half-shield of gules, a bordure argent.
Line ending: man dancing, and nude man, in jaws of fantastic animal, with raised hands pointing to head, looking back at the other (Sports and Games: Dancing).
Line ending: two hooded hybrid men confronting.
Line ending: three escutcheons, the first Boisleux, the second gules, a bordure argent, and the third Neuville-Vitasse.
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Psalm 085 (Vulg., 084) in First Nocturn of Matins of Hours of the Virgin.