Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1425-1430
MS M.453 fol. 8r

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Month, Occupation: August -- Man, wearing hat, threshing grain with flail.
Zodiac Sign: Virgo -- Woman, raising right hand and holding palm with left hand.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by man, wearing straw hat, tying sheaf of grain, kneeling on one knee on sheaves on ground (Scene, Occupational: Agriculture).