Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1520
MS M.307 fol. 5v

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Month, Occupation: September -- Man, wearing hat, walks along side two harnessed horses pulling harrow in plowed field. Another man, wearing hat, scatters seed with right hand, holding pouch of seed with left hand. In background is hunt, with five (?) dogs attacking stag (deer), hunter piercing the stag with spear, and two horsemen approaching the stag. Another hunter at right blowing horn (?). Another deer is in stream.