Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1480-1500
MS M.179 fol. 10r

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Month, Occupation: November -- Man, wearing hat, straddling pig, holding pig with left hand, and with right hand, knife at neck of pig. In background, sheaf of grain, and fire next to half-timbered house with chimney; hills in distance, all beneath blue sky.
Margins decorated with border of floreate and foliate ornament.