Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps in Berry, ca. 1510
MS M.250 fol. 1r

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Month, Occupation: January -- Man wearing hood, lifting footed bowl to face with right hand, is seated behind draped table on which are objects. Before table is fire, and monkey wearing collar and rope, seated before fire, extends arms toward fire.
Margins decorated with object resembling clothes iron, with border of floreate ornament including rose, columbine, and dianthus, and inhabited by birds and snail.