Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1425-1430
MS M.453 fol. 3r

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Month, Occupation: March -- Man, wearing hat, holding pruning knife in right hand and vine with left hand.
Zodiac Sign: Aries -- Ram.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by half figure of Gregory the Great (?), nimbed, wearing triple crowned papal tiara, raising right hand in blessing, and holding, in left hand, cross staff with double transverse; reverse image of male figure on verso of this folio.