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English: Folio 80 verso, De Bois Book of Hours (made in Oxford, England c.1325/30 for Hawisa de Bois (Latinised: de Bosco ("from the wood/forest")), showing arms of De Bois (Argent, two bars and a canton gules) and Murdak (Or fretty sable), of Compton Murdak, Warwickshire? (Source for heraldry: Kathryn Ann Smith, Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-century England, p.312[1]). Description in catalogue of Morgan Library: Helena, Empress: Scene, interviewing Judas and Jews -- Helena, crowned, veiled, holds cross in left hand and raises right hand toward four Jews, including Judas, two wearing hats, and one raising hands. All flank building representing Jerusalem. Scene against gold diapered background within initial D with ornament of foliage; spandrels decorated with diapered ornament. Margins decorated with rectilinear foliate extensions and sprigs of foliage. In upper margin, hybrid woman, crowned, forming part of horizontal foliate bar on which are confronting hybrid animal and hybrid man. In right margin, hybrid man, wearing hooded cape, holding club, and heraldic escutcheon of Murdac (or, a fretty sable). In lower margin, rabbit crouching, veiled horsewoman confronting horseman raising sword, and heraldic escutcheon of du Bois, variant (argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the second a mullet of the field). In left margin, heraldic escutcheon of du Bois (Argent, two bars and a canton gules). For arms of de Bois Argent, two bars and a canton gules see also f.170v Historia Anglorum (1250-1259) by Matthew Paris, Death of Hernaldus de Bosco (Arnold de Bois (d.1255), a Warden of the Forest)[2] Seated at the manor of Thorpe Arnold in Leicestershire: "Thorpe (or Torp) was eventually settled on an Earl of Leicester's steward named Ernauld de Bosco, four further generations of his family took the name Ernauld and this, it is widely believed, it how Thorpe Arnold got its name"; Biddlesden Abbey, Cistercian monks, founded 10 July 1147 by Ernald de Bosco, seneschal of the Earl of Leicester; (wikipedia).