CALENDAR FOR MAY, LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [Northern France, Rouen? ca. 1480]

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CALENDAR FOR MAY, LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [Northern France, Rouen? ca. 1480]

185 x 132 mm., written in a littera bâtarda in black and red, with branchwork-shaped line fillers, and full border of flowers, acanthus leaves and grisaille foliage on part-coloured liquid gold ground, containing small heads of fools, in lower compartments a man and a woman riding on one horse; on verso two naked lovers in a rosegarden behind a lattice fence (small tear in lower compartment)

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