Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 44r

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Right margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of woman, emerging from foliage, holding shield with right hand and halberd with left hand; half-figure of man, emerging from foliage, wearing hat, holding rod in each hand.
Text is from Psalm 22 (Vulg. 21), Hours of the Passion, 5. Sext.