Leaf from a Book of Hours, c. 1460s, page 2
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Leaf from a Book of Hours, c. 1460s, page 2
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A leaf from a Book of Hours featuring a two-faced creature in the border. The illuminated manuscript on parchment is in Latin and comes from France, likely Paris, c. 1460s. The leaf contains a single column of 14 lines of a late gothic bookhand and features initials in blue touched with white on a gold background. There is one decorated border panel featuring foliage and fruit, with a fantastical creature. The creature appears to have the body of a bird, head of a long-horned goat, and a long-eared, toothy face like a crocodile with a yawning muzzle emerging from its bottom.
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c 1460s
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Latin
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Book of hours--France
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Medieval--France--15th century
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RG 795, Leaf from a Book of Hours, c. 1460s, Brock University Archives
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