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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. 14r
Description:
Zodiac sign: Capricornus―A calendar page is shown within an illusionistic wood frame. Along the bottom border is a winter landscape. Within the landscape, a goat is enclosed in an illusionistic roundel frame.
Credits:
Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria.