Ladies with Rings

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Ovid's elegies are all about lust, love, and marriage (and explicitly mentions rings) and the cycle of the stories is also circular, so that may be why they chose a ring to represent Ovid.

The clouds I don't know. He was a real person rather than a deity or semi-deity. Although I suppose if he were looking out from heaven he might be depicted above the clouds.

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Wait a minute... are you sure those are clouds and not waves?

Ovid was banished to the Black Sea for some kind of indiscretion that angered the Roman emperor. Those might be waves. I can't think of a reason (other than the fact that he was long-dead by medieval times) that they would put him in clouds but waves would make sense. The two things for which he was best-known are the love elegies and being sent to the Black Sea.

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Caruncle, beak and scales speak against a wolf. One thing is certain though - we can exclude animals with hooves.

I'm not sure we can exclude animals with hooves.

Both Taurus and Aries have rounded hooves that are quite pawlike. All the animals in the VMS tend toward softer rounder paws and hooves than most medieval beasties. In many manuscripts hooves are quite sharp and prominent.