Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 244r

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Initial P decorated with diapered infilling and foliate terminals. Below, male acrobat as caryatid for the initial. Beginning of Chapter.
Initial A decorated with diapered infilling and foliate tendrils with two fantastic animals. Beginning of Collect.
Line ending: long-eared hybrid animal with two bodies.
Line ending: escutcheon of Boisleux.
Line endings: foliate ornament.
Text page of Chapter and Collect in None of Hours of the Virgin.