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(MANUSCRIPT LEAVES.) Illuminated vellum bifolium from the calendar of a Book of Hours showing the months of January and June,with miniature for each month and historiated three-quarter border on each page in colors and gold. French text written in gothic hand in red, blue, and gold. 163x115 mm folded; some marginal soiling, light surface wear to scenes of the Virgin in border on first page. France, later 15th century
The miniature for January depicts a solitary noble feasting, and Aquarius as an angel; the one for June shows a harvester with a scythe, and a somewhat unrealistic crab representing Cancer. The borders incorporate scenes from the life of the Virgin, and figures of saints and bishops.
