Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 6r

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Zodiac Sign: Gemini -- In medallion in right margin, two male figures, nude, standing together, with one hand on the other's shoulder, and clasping hands in front, labeled GEMINI.
Month, Occupation: May -- In vignette in lower margin, man wearing hat, holding falcon with extended right hand, in rock landscape with castle in background.
Margins decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. Heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont in lower margin (quarterly vair and gules).