Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 45v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: white quadruped (only two feet visible) with distorted snout, emerging from foliage; half-figure of wild man emerging from foliage, wearing hat, holding crutch or club with right hand and shield with left hand.
Text is from Psalm 22(Vulg. 21), Hours of the Passion, 5. Sext.