Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 35r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of woman, wearing foliate hat, emerging from flower, holding open book with both hands; half-figure of man, wearing hood, emerging, raising right hand, holding blade of sword with left hand, lookin up toward the woman.
Text is Canticle of Zacharias (Luke 1:68-79) from Hours of the Passion, 2. Lauds.