MS Hunter 229 f.5r September, from the Hunterian Psalter, c.1170 (pen & ink, and tempera...

September: the K represents a village scene. A woman with plaited hair, in a slate-blue dress with green hose and black boots, stands holding a pink wicker basket full of grapes on her right shoulder, while she gathers a bunch with her left hand to drop into a second basket slung over her left arm. The other figure, with her head and shoulders muffled in a red and white hood, crouches and picks a bunch of grapes with her left to put into a similar handled basket held in her right. The grapes are green, and the vine and tree are extremely conventional. On the same page the sign of Libra shows the balances, of gold, suspended by a ring on the right index of a barefooted Christlike figure in pink mantle over a long green robe, with wide sleeves which nearly covers a red and white undergarment. Content: Kalendarivm. Psalterivm. Litania. Preces Qvaedam. Known as Hunterian Psalter, formerly as York Psalter. Beautifully written in one hand; 13 full-page pictures, one full-page illumination, gilt, historiated or illuminated initials begin the first verse of each Psalm