Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Margin, left: Month, Occupation: August -- Man, with right hand holding sickle against sheaf of grain (reaping). Scene in hilly landscape with house and trees in background. Illustration of August. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration, including strawberry, and inhabited by busts of two men, wearing hats, in lower margin.