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1517–20 – Young Love in the Spring – Album of Calendar Miniatures, France, Tours, ca. 1517–20 Illuminated by the Master of Claude de France – http://www.themorgan.org/collections/works/IlluminatingFashion/manuscript.asp?page=48 – Seated in a rose garden, a girl weaves a flower garland for her suitor. She is the illustration for the month of May from a prayer book, the calendar illustrations of which were excised during the nineteenth century and inserted into this album. The maiden is dressed in the new Italianate fashion. Her gown is cut with a low, square neck revealing the top of her linen smock. Her sleeves are in two parts, tied together and to the gown with gold laces. The linen of her smock pokes through at her shoulders, elbows, and the slits of the lower sleeve.