Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 62v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid with head of lion (?), holding vase with right hand, raising left hand, sitting on ground; man wearing hat, raising object with right hand, leaning over goat, grasping horn of goat with left hand.
Text is from Psalm 8 (Vulg. 8), Hours of the Virgin, 1. Matins, 1. Nocturn.