MS M.399, fol. 12r

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Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
ca. 1515
172 x 125 mm

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

MS M.399, fol. 12r
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Zodiac sign: Libra―A calendar page is shown within an illusionistic wood frame. Along the bottom border is a landscape. Superimposed on the landscape and enclosed by an illusionistic wood frame is a room with a scale hanging from chain.

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Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria.