MS Hunter 229 f.1r January, from the Hunterian Psalter, c.1170 (pen & ink, and tempera...

January: in the historiated Kl a man, in green, sleeved mantle with wide, turned up, white edged cuffs, seated at a banquet table, removes with his right hand the conical cover from a golden goblet held in his left. In the background are castle turrets with vanes and pennons. On the same page, within a gilt circular border, on a dark red background with white spirals, Aquarius, in a green tunic and rolled-up blue trousers, pours water from a bronze pitcher borne, inverted, on his shoulder. 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