May

The festival of the first of May and the full flowering of spring were celebrated by the Duc de Berry's gallant company-as they were in other courts of medieval France-by wearing of "gay green" dresses and garlands of leaves. Here beneath the towers of Riom a calvalcade rides through the woods behind a troupe of merry trumpeters. The occasion is graced by the presence of a prince of the royal blood, dressed in the king's colors-black, white, red. The dogs in the foreground seem to be the same puppies that dined on the duke's table in the January miniature.