Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 37r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figures of two men emerging from foliage, one raising stone with right hand, the other, wearing hat, touching head of first man with right hand and raising dagger with left hand; half-figure of man emerging from foliage, holding leafy branch with both hands.
Text is from Psalm 2, Hours of the Passion, 3. Prime.