Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470
MS M.32 fol. 7r

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Margin, upper: Personification of Virtue, Patience, inscribed PACIE(N)CE, is represented by woman, wearing wimpled veil, with joined hands raised, in room with three arched windows, decorative wall and tiled floor. Arched vignette within block border of floreate decoration. Margin, lower: Month, Occupation: April -- Woman, wearing headdress, gathers flowers in fold of garment, beside youth and man, both wearing hats and carrying flowering branches on right shoulders, all in garden with trellis; trees in background. Medallion vignette within block border of floreate and foliate decoration, including currants. Block border at right margin of floreate and foliate decoration, including currants.