Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 238v

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Initial D of orange tubes with foliate terminals, blue filgree infilling, and blue geometric and foliate interstices with gold spandrels, at beginning of First Versicle of Terce of Hours of the Virgin.
Initial A decorated with diapered infilling and foliate terminals, at beginning of Hymn.
Initial A decorated with diapered infilling and beast head, and formed by fantastic animal, at beginning of Psalm 120 (Vulg., 119).
Line ending: heraldic escutcheon of Boisleux.
Line ending: heraldic escutcheon of Neuville-Vitasse with a label of three azure.
Line ending: nude man, in jaws of fantastic animal, playing viol.
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.