Book of Hours, Initial 'D' with the Visitation; drolleries with apes, hybrid musicians, and doctor with matula (for uroscopy) in margins, This Book of Hours was created in northeastern France in the early fourteenth century, possibly for the marriage of Louis I of Châtillon (d. 1346) and Jeanne of Hainaut, as the Châtillon de Blois arms are depicted, and the arms of Hainaut also appear in the borders, including in conjunction with the Châtillon arms. The manuscript is exceptional for the abundance of drolleries and lively hybrids that inhabit nearly every page

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