Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1490-1500
MS M.1054 fol. 7r

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Right margin:
Zodiac Sign: Leo -- Lion standing in landscape below trefoil arch in niche decorated with crockets.
Lower margin:
Month, Occupation: July -- Man, wearing broad brimmed hat harvesting grain with sickle in landscape with bundles of grain and with hills in distance.
Page decorated with architectural frame of two columns, one twisted, supporting arcade.