Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, Paris, ca. 1350
MS M.75 fol. 4v

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1) Month, occupation: August -- Man threshes grain with flail.
2) Zodiac sign: Virgo -- Woman holds palm branch in left hand and object, possibly book, in right hand.
Figures against patterned backgrounds in barbed quatrefoils.
Decorated KL and foliate extensions with hybrid animal in margins.