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Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, ca. 1280s
MS M.183 fol. 4v

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1) Month, Occupation: April -- Man, wearing tunic, stands, holding two flowering branches.
2) Zodiac Sign: Taurus -- Bull, with tail curled on its back, walks to right.
Each in concave hexagon frame with lobes.
KL initials decorated with marginal foliate extensions, one as perching branch for hybrid man armed with club and shield in left margin, and another enclosing human head



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