Conjectures about the “man without attributes” ( f85r2 )

[nablator]

Can someone who can read French skim the page and tell me if it is about the four ages of man?

Yes.

Translating from p. xiv-xv, the miniatures in BnF Fr 12581 in f. 387, 390, 395 and 401v are in bad shape (especially the first, the others are okay), they represent a (missing) figure holding a child, a young man, a more mature man, an old man leaning on crutches.