Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 7r

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Margin, right: Month, Occupation: May -- Man, wearing hat, with right hand holding flowering branch and with left hand extended toward woman, with right hand holding another flowering branch. Scene in grassy landscape with trees in background. Illustration of May. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration, including strawberry, and inhabited by busts of two men in lower margin.