Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470
MS M.32 fol. 9r

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Margin, upper: Personification of Virtue, Charity, inscribed CARITESCE, is represented by woman, wearing headdress, with both hands holding box of coins spilling forth, standing in room with two arched windows, decorative wall and tiled floor. Arched vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including thistles. Margin, lower: Month, Occupation: June -- Beneath starry sky and rays descending from arc of heaven, woman, wearing wimpled veil, rakes grain, and man, wearing hat, with scythe cuts grain in field, beside two haystacks; landscape beyond. Medallion vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including roses. Block border at right of floreate and foliate decoration, including currants.