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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT SCORPIO. Being a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the labor of the month, image 1
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT SCORPIO. Being a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the labor of the month, image 2
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT: SCORPIO.
Being a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the labor of the month,

11 December 2020, 10:00 EST
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT: SCORPIO.

Being a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the labor of the month, with text for the month of October, and illustrations for sowing and the zodiac sign Scorpio, Northern France: c.1460, 12mo (130 x 98 mm). Usual flaking to gold on "KL," one tiny light brown stain to tail edge.

From a large fragment of a Book of Hours with borders containing human and zoological inhabitants. The labor of the month shows a man sowing in a plowed field, a large white sack of golden grain at the side awaiting his attention and a gray barn in the background; verso with a scorpion beside a large rock, with tall towers and a walled city in the distance.

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