Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 223r

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Line ending: man, armed with sword and shield (buckler), encountering fantastic animal.
Line ending: nude man, in jaws of fantastic animal, playing pipe and tabor, and woman dancing, between two escutcheons, one Neuville-Vitasse, and the other Boisleux.
Line ending: horned fantastic animal.
Line ending: two escutcheons, one gules, a bordure argent, and the other gules, a bordure and a canton argent.
Line ending: heraldic escutcheon of Boisleux.
Line ending: bird before fox, with protruding tongue, lying on its back (Bestiary: Fox feigning Death).
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Psalm 045 (Vulg., 044) in Third Nocturn of Matins of Hours of the Virgin.