Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Tours, ca. 1470
MS M.366. Fol. 015r

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Month, Occupation: December -- Man, wearing hat, kneels on ground and holds in left hand snout of pig and in right hand knife, with which he pierces throat of the pig. At right, man, wearing hat, holds left legs of the pig, reclining on its right side.
Right margin decorated with floreate border.