Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, ca. 1490
MS S.7 fol. 1v

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Month, Occupation: January -- At left, servant, wearing hat, helps man, wearing hat, to put on coat. Canopied bed in background. At right, man carries bundle of wood on his back toward fireplace with andirons, where man, wearing hat, uses bellows. Roof of timber house, with clay chimneys, at top.