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

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

Being a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the labor of the month for December, with an illustration of slaughtering a pig, and the zodiac sign Capricorn, Northern France: c.1460, 12mo (130 x 98 mm). Minor loss of gold around the Kalends, a couple of tiny marginal stains, otherwise excellent.

From a large fragment of a Book of Hours with borders containing human and zoological figures. The labor of the month of December depicts a man in a white apron raising a cudgel over the head of a pig he is about to kill; verso showing Capricorn the Sea-Goat with his cornucopia-like lower half, looking rather out of place in a green meadow.

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