MS Hunter 229 f.3r May, from the Hunterian Psalter, c.1170 (pen & ink, and tempera...

May: the K contains a mounted figure with a hawk on his right hand, who, dressed in pink robe, red hose, and pointed boots, issues from a castle's opened gate. The horse is dapple grey, with a brown mane. The saddle is gilt and the stirrups of silver. The quarry, a wild duck, flies in the margin. On the same page the sign of Gemini shows the Twins wearing pink tunics reaching to the knees, red hose, and black, pointed boots, laced white, who hold silver-headed javelins and support between them a round-topped, tapering gold shield with blue bosses, on a blue background. [On the seventh of May is the memorial entry of the name of John, Archbishop "in beuerli" (Beverley, Yorkshire.)] 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