Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470
MS M.32 fol. 10r

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Margin, upper: Personification of Virtue, Goodness, inscribed ABONIECE, is represented by veiled woman holding rosary, in joined hands raised, standing in room with three arched windows, decorative wall and tiled floor. Arched vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including roses. Margin, lower: Month, Occupation: July -- Beneath rays descending from arc of heaven and starry sky, woman, wearing headdress and apron, extends sickle in left hand, and man, wearing broad hat, with scythe in right hand reaps grain, beside another man, wearing hat, kneeling, gathering one of two bundles of grain, in field before tall grain. Medallion vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including currants. Block border at right margin of floreate and foliate decoration, including violas.