Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Rouen, early 16th century
MS M.431 fol. 12r

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Month, Occupation: December -- Man, wearing hat, astride boar, cuts neck of boar with knife in right hand, holding left front leg with left hand. At left, woman, wearing headdress, raising left hand, with right, holds basin catching blood of the boar.
Scene walled enclosure with sheaves of grain in foreground and background; buildings outside wall.
Right margin decorated with floreate ornament.