Ms. written and illuminated in France, Tours, ca. 1517-1520 (?)
Decoration: 11 16th-century miniatures excised from a calendar and inserted into sheets of vellum, each miniature illustrating a labor of the month surmounted by a lunette containing the corresponding zodiac scene and having a gold frame. A 12th miniature for December was executed in the 19th century.
Artist: Master of Claude de France.
Descriptions of illustrations: January: A man and woman feasting before a fire; Aquarius -- February: A man seated, warming himself before the fire and a man standing beside him; Pices -- March: Two peasants trimming vines; Aries -- April: Two hunters with falcons; Taurus -- May: A maiden seated in an enclosed garden making a guirlande de mai; Gemini -- June: Two peasants mowing hay with scythes; Cancer -- July: A peasant reaping wheat with a sickle; Leo -- August: A seigneur supervising a man toting grain; Virgo -- September: A peasant sowing winter wheat; Libra -- October: A peasant treading grapes in a barrel; Scorpio -- November: A peasant knocking acorns from a tree for hogs; Sagittarius -- December: Two men butchering a hog; Capricorn (19th century replacement)
The versos of the miniatures contain the feast days from the 10th to the 19th day of the month, including those of two bishops of Tours -- Saint Lidorius (Sept. 13th) and Saint Martin (Nov. 11th).