This is based on Lewis E.M. 11:22v at the Free Library of Philadelphia, a single leaf calendar page attributed to Jean Bourdichon. It's similar to Morgan MS M.732 and the Great Hours of Anne of Brittany (BNF Lat. 9474).
I kept the original proportions, including for the text. It is 120 mm x 125 mm. Instead of using a generic bâtarde hand I tried to emulate the original. The capital T that starts the text is also from the original. There are a lot of abbreviations since there was so little space, most using a macron to indicate missing letters. I didn't see any superscript letters for abbreviations in the original, Morgan MS M.732 or BNF Lat. 9474 but used one at the end of line 12 where I ran out of room.
The most difficult part of the illumination was painting on top of the gold leaf. The paint needed to be fairly dry and once a little bit of paint dried, I could get more to adhere to the paint that was already down. Overall, though, I was quite satisfied with it.
