Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1485-1490
MS M.231 fol. 10r

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Zodiac Sign: Scorpio -- Scorpion on bank with trees in background.
Month, Occupation: October -- Man wearing hood, sewing seeds with right hand, holding pouch of tunic with left hand, walks through plowed field with landscape in distance.
Margins decorated with sections of floreate ornament.