Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, between 1500 and 1526
M.363 fol. 1v

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Month, Occupation: January -- Man, wearing hat, sits in chair with hands raised before fireplace. Beside him is table upon which is plate and cup. Behind him is bed. Scene in room, within vignette in lower margin.
Margin is decorated with branches with acorns, inhabited by five chaffinches.