Thistle #2

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Pink thistles featured in margins alongside forget-me-not flowers.

"Zodiac Sign: Taurus In a medallion in the right margin is a bull. The medallion is labeled TAURUS; Month, Occupation: April In a vignette in the lower margin is a man wearing a hat, holding a branch in his right hand, and standing in a rocky landscape; The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin are the initials A and P linked by a love knot."- The Morgan Library and Museum

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MS G.55 fol. 5r; Hours of Pierre de Bosredont; France, Langres; ca. 1465

https://www.themorgan.org/collection/Hours-of-Pierre-de-Bosredont/20

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