Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 10r

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Margin, right: Month, Occupation: November -- Man, with right hand grasping horn of bull, before another man, wearing apron, raising axe (slaughtering). Scene in landscape before building with three arched windows, one decorated with portrait of man in grisaille. Illustration of November. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration, including strawberry, and inhabited by busts of two men in lower margin.