Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 217v

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Line ending: man, in jaws of fantastic animal, 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: decorated escutcheon of vert, on a bordure gules bezanty argent.
Line ending: cat holding mouse in mouth.
Line ending: man, wearing cap, 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: three fantastic animals, two swallowing the third biting the first one.
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Psalm 099 (Vulg., 098) in First Nocturn of Matins of Hours of the Virgin.