MS Hunter 229 f.4v August, from the Hunterian Psalter, c.1170 (pen & ink, and tempera...

August: the K contains a white-bearded man in a pink girt-up garment and red and white hose, bareheaded, and a white capped woman in orange bodice and skirt with green hose, both cutting corn with silver sickles, on a blue background with tufts of green and a wheat sheaf in the rear. On the same page the sign of Virgo presents the B.V.M. (see 5, 1 verso) dressed in blue sleeved mantle with enormous hanging crimson and white cuffs (as in 1, 1 verso), holding a palm in her right hand. The background is crimson with white floral tracery. 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