Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 249v

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Initial S decorated with diapered infilling and fantastic animal with tail of foliate tendrils.
Initial D decorated with diapered infilling, adjoined by beast head with interlace and scrolling foliate tendrils, one enclosing fantastic animal.
Line ending: nude man, in jaws of fantastic animal, armed with sword and shield (buckler).
Line ending: escutcheon of vert, a fess argent.
Line ending: bird pecking at protruding tongue of fox lying on its back (Bestiary: Fox feigning Death).
Line ending: nude man, in jaws of fantastic animal, armed with sword and shield (buckler) before nude man squatting.
Line ending: two heraldic escutcheons, one Boisleux, and the other Neuville-Vitasse.
Line endings: geometric and foliate ornament.
Text page of Psalms 129 (Vulg., 128) and 131 (Vulg., 130) of Compline in Hours of the Virgin.