Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: half-figure of woman emerging from foliage, wearing headdress, holding rod with both hands; half-figure of man wearing hat and hood, emerging from foliage, playing bagpipe.
Text is from Psalm 22 (Vulg. 21), Hours of the Passion, 5. Sext.