Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 9v

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Margin, right: Month, Occupation: October -- Man, wearing hat and apron gathered in left hand, with right hand sowing seeds (sowing). Scene on path in landscape with trees. Illustration of October. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration, including strawberry, and inhabited by busts of two men in lower margin.