Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 8r

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Margin, left: Month, Occupation: July -- Man, wearing soft hat and with pouch tied to belt, holding scythe in field (mowing). Scene in hilly landscape with trees in background. Illustration of July. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration, including strawberry, and inhabited by busts of two men, wearing hats, in lower margin.