Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux
France, Arras, after 1246
MS M.730 fol. 30v

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Line ending: Two knights, wearing visors and chain mail, one (left) armed with shield and mounted on caparisoned horse charged with heraldry of Neuville-Vitasse, and the other (right) armed with shield and mounted on caparisoned horse charged with heraldry of Boisleux, jousting with tilting poles or lances.
Line ending: two nude men wrestling, both flanked by two escutcheons, the first gules, a cross argent, and the second gules, a bordure argent.
Line ending: escutcheon of gules, a cross argent, on a canton gules a fess indented argent.
Line ending: bird pecking at protruding tongue of fox lying on its back (Bestiary: Fox feigning Death).
Line ending: two nude men, in jaws of fantastic animals, fighting with swords and shields (bucklers) (Burlesque, Fighting).
Line ending: two escutcheons, one with gules, a bordure and a canton argent, and the other of Boisleux, flanking two men dancing, one holding wreath (?), and the other raising hands pointing to head (Sports and Games: Dancing).
Line endings decorated with foliate and geometric ornament.
Text page of Psalm 18:10-18 (Vulg., 17:11-19).