Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, ca. 1280s
MS M.183 fol.5v

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1) Month, Occupation: June -- Beside basket of flowers, man kneels on right leg, picking flowers from bush.
2) Zodiac Sign: Cancer -- Crab.
Each in concave hexagon frame with lobes.
KL initials decorated with marginal foliate extensions, one formed partly by hybrid man waving arms in left margin, and another enclosing bird in lower margin.