Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, ca. 1280s
MS M.183 fol.7v

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1) Month, Occupation: October -- Man sows seed from bag tied around shoulder.
2) Zodiac Sign: Scorpio -- Scorpion.
Each in concave hexagon frame with lobes.
KL initials decorated with marginal foliate extensions, one with hybrid man of head and arm holding sword and with branch on which bird perches in left margin.