Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Initial C enclosing head of man wearing hat.
Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of winged man wearing hood, emerging from foliage, arms crossed on breast; half-figure of woman or man wearing olive wreath and armor, emerging from foliage holding bannered spear with right hand and round shield (buckler) with left hand.