Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, Amiens, between 1280 and 1299
MS M.729 fol. 315r

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1) In initial D, decorated with geometric ornament and foliate spandrels, appears a bust of bearded Evangelist John whose nimbus is inscribed with his name, S. IOHANNES.
2) Margins - Rectilinear bars decorated with interlace and foliage, enclosing seven French heraldic shields, including Hangest (two), Count of Soissons (one), Count of Grandpré (one), and Moreuil (three), and two heads of youths, including one in profile, wearing headband, and inhabited by a hybrid bird confronting a hybrid animal, a rabbit, a dog with a bell collar, a hybrid man confronting a hybrid animal, and two birds.