Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 31v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half figure of man, wearing foliate headdress, holding shield with right hand and iron claws with left hand; half figure of devil, winged, emerging from foliage, raising bell in each hand.
Text is from Psalm 55 (Vulg. 54), Hours of the Passion, 2. Lauds.