Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 6v

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Margin, left: Month, Occupation: April -- Two men, wearing pouches fastened to belts, one holding pruning hook and one holding knife, flanking vine before trellis (pruning). Scene in grassy landscape. Illustration of April. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration, including strawberry, and inhabited by busts of two men in lower margin.