Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1418
MS M.919 fol. 64v

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Left margin decorated with border of ivy rinceaux inhabited by: hybrid, with human like head; half-figure of man wearing hat, playing shawm (?) emerging from back of fantastic animal.
Text is from Psalm 19 (Vulg. 18), Hours of the Virgin, 1. Matins, 1. Nocturn.